The oil companies spent 100 times more money pumping up SB21 than those entities that actively opposed it. The oil companies unequivocally said that passage of SB21 would result in increased oil production. They didn't say "unless the price of oil drops below $50"...they said flat out that SB21 would increase oil production. Unfortunately, the pro-SB21 advertising blitz was effective in convincing the more uninformed voters in Alaska, those who are easily influenced by slick corporate advertising, to vote to retain SB21 in 2014. 

And today we all heard the story of BP plans to significantly cut production operations...another in the long line of recent stories about layoffs and operational cuts in Alaska's oil industry. What more evidence does the pro-SB21 crowd need to understand that they were conned / hoodwinked?

As far as the oil company shills go, its impossible to make a person understand something when his or her paycheck depends upon him or her not understanding it.