Most Alaskans don't care about what the Saudi's are doing ... "them furners are way over yonder."  Which is why you're not getting response on that part of your pitch.  Closer to home is the Dems having held the CBR hostage last time, to get some of what they wanted into last years budget.  This PFD raid is mostly about the GOP not wanting to compromise with the Dems, to get access to the CBR.  And there is about 18 billion, counting all assets that could possibly be quickly liquidated/re-purposed, besides the Permanent Fund, to draw from ... which under scores that the current posturing is mostly about a "blinking" match between the Dems and the GOP.  The biggest difficulty as I see it, is that, over the years, both parties have been culpable in wasting oil money on questionable ventures ... and now it hardly matters what they do to fix things ... no matter what solutions they come up with, it will be too little and too late.  All that is left is who's ox is going to get gored.