"In 2005, major North Slope oil producers BP and ConocoPhillips signed an agreement with the state to manufacture the newly required diesel from crude oil on the North Slope starting in 2008, in exchange for the state supporting delayed implementation of the federal requirement, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation."

When the state actually started collecting a fair share of our oil production in 2007, the oil companies threw a snit and reneged on this. And what did we do? Nothing. Everyone knew that the increased tanker traffic would mean more accidents. We are humans, after all.

The state is maintaining the Dalton Highway, at our cost, to service the oil companies. Time to turn it into a toll road, to support its maintenance, and to fund the inevitable tanker crashes and cleanups. No more corporate welfare.

Oh, and couple this with a tax on the gross production, not the phony "net profit", so that they can't merely pass on the cost back to us.