[thackney]

Sorry for the distorted reply above. Corrected below:

The problems addressed in this article are with the Alaska State tax structure. The same federal rules on non-federal land apply in Alaska as well as North Dakota and Texas.

Obama adds to the problems, but he is not the source of all the problems.

[Eska]

I'm not going to argue about oil taxes. The oil Industry wants the oil for free. Majority of Alaskans have watched this debate their entire lives and Repub & Dem alike in our legislature will never give oil the tax reduction they want; for good reason. Alaskans don't believe the oil industry when they give the Feds one set of numbers & Alaska a completely opposite set of numbers. There will be oil flowing for 75 years no matter what the oil industry claims and their bought & paid for politicals (Parnell) threaten. There are 7 billion barrels of recoverable reserves still in Alaska I read.

It's all the same old game to increase oil company profits that Alaska has watched for 30 years. No offense Thack, I live here too. It's plus 31 here today. I'm going to fire up the skandic and enjoy this nice weather.