Dan, exploring for oil is not the problem.  Production of oil at the right selling price is the problem.  SB-21 addressed the wrong issue.  Everyone in the oil biz knows there are billions of barrels of oil/sands oil directly under Prudhoe.  Anyone who has ever walked into PBOC has seen the map of BP's original plans to capture this oil.  Milne Point has three wells drilled on Pad S to capture this oil.  BUT, the process of pumping and separating this oil needs to be developed by the BP or any of the majors.  We gave $750 million in free money to minor oil companies like Hilcorp to "find" new oil. This "new" oil was not lost.  Everyone has known where this "new" oil was since we've developed computers fast enough to handle the seismic data.  Had we given BP or any other major oil player this money for oil/sand production, then I could see the point of SB 21.  Otherwise, no Fix of SB 21, we Alaskans are getting shafted.