Oil Taxes

Our legislature has some tough decisions to make.  This is the first year since the ’70′s that there has been NO new oil exploration in Alaska.  Sure, the companies are still making money — but like anyone else, they are making their financial decisions on the margin — the difference between how much they will [...]

Senator Begich speaks

Yep, he said a few words. But is he supporting Alaska’s oil industry, or the Democrat Party’s tactics to delay offshort oil drilling? Published 2/21/2009

The Domino Effect Reaches Alaska

Over the past few months we’ve read a few articles explaining why Alaskans won’t be hit as hard by the present recession as other states.  They may be right, but we’re not going to come out of this unscathed. Click on the image to view the full cartoon…

Offshore Drilling: Speaker Pelosi refuses to allow vote.

Just when 70 percent of Americans agree that it is time to relax the moratorium on offshore drilling as part of our energy solution, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allows the senate to take a 6-week summer recess without bringing the issue to a vote. Based on this performance, it would seem proper to ask, [...]

What are McCain and Obama not seeing?

U.S. Energy demand is steadily out-distancing our energy supply–not because there is no energy to be had, but because we have surrendered control of our energy and economic policies to environmentalists and a liberal U.S. Court System. We have not built a nuclear plant since the late ’70′s, constructed an oil refinery for 30 years, [...]