Tom Mitchell, I agree with you that recent resource extractions have made us poorer financially. The only reason we are poorer because some people of low intelligence keep voting Big Oil Republicans back into office. That and Alaskans are paying oil companies to extract our resource because of SB21. Dumb and racist remark: "I have to assume you are with the Obama Administration."  Norway taxes big oil profits, not, like Alaska, production. That has to change because the production output will decrease and then Alaskans will be paying Big Oil just for doing nothing but sit on oil wells,