You know, good point. 

I remember hearing the DOT commissioner addressing one of the committees the session before last, praising his department for a project hauling several billion yards (I can't remember, but I think he said 7 billion yards) of rock to the North Slope in order to improve the Dalton highway because it is vital to the petroleum industry operations in the oil patch. I remember thinking that several billion yards of rock can't be cheap and that we're spending that money to support the infrastructure of an industry that is providing negative revenue to the State. It was almost laughable to me, but the usual suspects praised him for using State funds to ensure that the North Slope operations wouldn't be compromised.