Let's see, the State subsidies to the oil industry were $775 million more than we brought into state coffers last year and there are 10,000 oil and gas workers in the state. So the State Treasury is subsidizing the industry to the tune of $77K per employee. So, why are they laying people off on the Slope when they are being so heavily subsidized? 

I think I may know. They are sending all of the subsidies to their headquarters in Houston and London and not using them for employee wages for Slope workers. 

I seem to recall the big selling point/scare tactic during their anti repeal campaign was that if SB21 was repealed, everyone would lose their jobs. I recall a contractor friend who relied on State capital projects with bumper stickers to that effect. I wanted to argue the point with him, but knew he had drunken the Kool-Aid and it would just waste time.

Almost immediately after the repeal failed, BP terminated over 300 employees. Surely all of whom voted against the repeal.