Chalk a BIG one up for the legislature on the side of "unmet duties."
 
Article 8, Section 2 of the Alaska Constitution states: "The legislature shall provide for the utilization, development and conservation of all natural resources belonging to the state, including land and waters, for the MAXIMUM BENEFIT OF ITS PEOPLE."

Of course, the "its people" part may have morphed into a whole other being in their minds during the course of their representation. How else to explain the huge benefits the oil companies are getting in comparison to us? What gets me is that we need to pay them extra, too, for their "unmet" needs from whatever little we received from them to begin with? Really? You have it all backwards, legislature. Turncoats.