Understand that the oily coalition wants the entire permanent fund; every last dime.  The longer they delay the longer the obscene oil tax credits stay in place.  Under Chenault's past leadership, we pay to pump our oil.  $10 billion a year in oil is being pumped from state land and we pay them.  This is completely insane.  From day one the oil companies have used the same arguments. They plead poverty and jobs and then they buy our politicians.  They have virtually unlimited funds to buy our legislators and most of our GOP legislators are for sale cheap.  In 1973 they turned two votes in the Senate, MIller and Butrovich.  This changed oil taxes forever and that session became known as the "sell out session".  The next time they turned the Senate was an illegal $50,000 funneled into a last minute smear campaign against Vic Fischer.  The money came as blank $1000 dollar checks funneled through VECO.  They lie and cheat and have forever.  It is their world wide business plan.