Apply for mineral rights to your property , and you might understand a bit more . The resources are Citizen owned , Government is tasked with managing those resources to the maximum benefit of the Citizens. Otherwise your opinion is no different than that of any other non-resident of the state. The PFD is from an investment account utilizing a portion of the proceeds from oil . The other portion goes to Government , and they have woefully mismanaged , and gifted the oil companies with monies belonging to the Citizens that they should not get. They are only here while they can profit, and will be gone when the money is gone. The PFD goes straight into the local economy as it passes through the hands of the Citizens , the oil companies send it to Texas.