It sickens me, yes sickens me, to agree with Danny but there is a key part you are omitting Clay. 

We as residents of the state get a share or royalty of every barrel of oil produced, creating an economic incentive for us to "invest" in such businesses. Yes you provided Alaska jobs, and brought revenue INTO the state (different than providing revenue TO the state), which these companies did as well. The big difference is in addition to your business they ALSO stood/stand to provide the state with direct revenue to state coffers through royalty barrels.

Alaska isn't just paying some business's bills, we are investing money in moving inventory we own from deep down in the ground (where it's less valuable) to the surface (where it's more valuable). This   behavior of investing money to make what one owns more valuable is a basic tenant of business (and likely absent from your personal hypothetical).