I guess we should just pay the oil companies for getting that filthy oil out of the ground up here; but they probably wouldn't even be happy with that either.
Just business for the oil industry, but resources are state wealth up here that funds everything so we don't have all the taxes you all do in lower 48. Most Alaskans feel that if we don't get the going price for oil, let her in the ground. Alaska could go 10-15 years without any tax revenue if they had to, but actually oil industry always seems to want what we have in the end after crying poverty every other year and demanding tax reductions. No joke, been watching the game since I got here 20 years back. This ain't something new.
No offense Thackney, we just differ on this picture.
That filthy oil is the fuel of the modern world we have today and for the foreseeable future.
Alaska has it (oil) and you're right you can ask anything you want for it. Just remember oil companies are just like any business interprise they require a profit to offset the massive investments that is required in the oil business. There isn't another industry in the world with the overhead of the oil industry.