This state is an owner state Mr. Buchannon whether the oil industry and the bought and paid for legislators who do their bidding like it or not. We have been temporarily given the short end of the stick but I hope to see reason prevail in the upcoming elections. Nobody owes me anything personally  but the oil industry owes the state of Alaska for the privilege of having access to OUR oil. As Lynn Moore asked above "whose money is it if not ours"? Do you think the oil industry gets to own OUR oil because of "squatters rights" or the recently accepted  idea of multinational corporations being able to claim land by eminent domain as they were attempting to do with pipeline through Nebraska?