Let us think back. How many times have the Legislature and governor(s) proposed lowering taxes and royalties on oil and gas companies to “make it more economically feasible” for companies to increase production?
This talk has been in our faces for well more than five decades. We have observed no increase in production, no gas pipeline, no increase in LNG plant production, and we have no refineries any longer. One does not pay someone to take what is yours and charge you for doing so, as they make a profit from you as well as others.
Simply an absurd stance, once again, from the politicians.
The natural resources in Alaska belong to all Alaskans and, if the companies do not wish to obtain the resources on our terms, so be it. It isn’t as if the natural resources will go away.
— Randall J. Montbriand
Anchorage
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