They say: "Alaska's best hope for sustained new production in the future is to encourage a group of independent companies to explore for and develop new oil and gas discoveries"....  And it makes me wonder... How many "new discoveries" have there been in return for the billion dollars Alaskans spent to get away from the three companies who have funded the most of the exploration and new development out of their own pockets with no tax credit... But of cours its popular to hate COP, BP, and Exxon, even if it costs us a billion dollars to see that even with a handout, the other players just don't add much, or care much...