Alaska's broken system with oil haters and monopoly lovers is real. It is a few bad abusive oil & gas Agency workers who fight Alaskans and  smaller oil companies is why Alaska missed the oil boom with $100 a barrel oil, this statement Paul Jenkins above is wrong in my view, " The rest of us are stuck with an economy fraying at the edges because of anemic oil prices. Alaska needs something, anything, some kind of spark."! 

I feel the downfall in the oil business was when, Gov. Palin's picked of Joe Balash, Dan Sullivan to run the DNR, DOG, Bill Barron who killed the smaller competitors!  Gov. Walker will not fix what they did, like Pricing Alaskans out of lease sales with 150% increase in Minimum Bid and 8,000% rentals

The system shut Alaskans and the smaller oil & gas competitors out, she did help fight the monopoly but the oil haters sabotages the DNR DOG everyday and few know about it! 

Paul Craig of Anchorage would make a great Governor if Alaskans want financial prosperity fast