Here you are lobbying the legislature in 2012...Are you now saying you weren't trying and didn't succeed in lowering taxes?

"The oil industry spent more than $1 million lobbying in Alaska as it tried to lower state oil taxes this year, including a $3,120 dinner in Washington, D.C., when the Alaska Legislature shut down for lawmakers’ “Energy Break” trip to the nation’s capital."

"Oil industry opened the checkbooks to influence Alaska legislators"
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article24730207.html#storylink=cpy

If the current tax policy is good for Alaska, how do you explain this?

"Alaska's general fund is paying the oil industry more than it's getting back"

http://www.adn.com/politics/article/oil-tax-regime-newly-criticized-subsidies-forecast-outstrip-unrestricted-income/2016/03/27/