"Oil has to be explored, discovered, drilled, pumped, transported, refined, sold. Oil in the ground is something that only has value after billions of dollars of added costs. The industry does that, not the State. " --Under SB21 Alaska pays up to 60 percent of the "added costs" for exploring and developing oil fields. According many proponents of SB21, under ACES Alaska was paying even more in tax credits to oil companies. Tell me again how Alaska doesn't pay for anything oil related.

"Industry makes their payroll and the State’s payroll and builds infrastructure in hostile otherwise inhabitable locations." --Were Alaskan Natives not around prior to oil business coming to Alaska?

No one ever talks about the profits the oil industry has made in Alaska. Lets see those numbers and then decide who is fornicating whom.