Senator MacKinnon, what a disappointing article! You are insulting Alaskans by your blatant omission of any explanation of oil taxes and credits while extolling the virtues of global oil. Do you understand that most Alaskans know that you are totally sold out to the oilies? If there is any chance I am wrong prove it by "putting politics aside" and repealing SB21 and all oil tax credits, implementing a straight production tax per barrel, and taxing the gas in the ground until a gas line in built. Forty years is enough time for the oilies to develop the gas.   How can you ask your fellow Alaskans to each contribute $1000 ($775 million) to oil companies to pay them to steal our oil? I will tell you where I stand, if you and oil corporation sycophants posing as legislators take $1000 of my PFD, I will use any remainder to see to it that you are not reelected.