Funny how Hawkins doesn't make any mention of the provisions within the oil tax law, SB21, that are draining the state with cash credits to the oil industry approaching a billion dollars a year, but made a bunch of (knowingly?) dishonest statements about it in a previous op-Ed:

"Let’s start with oil prices. What the critics of oil tax reform always seem to forget is that the new production tax regime actually favors the state and works against the oil companies when oil prices drop. And oil prices are in fact dropping. This is a game changer."

"In the face of all this, advocates of repealing Alaska’s successful oil tax reforms continue to blow their horns gamely at daily “press availabilities.” One wonders when they will realize that history has overtaken them and no one is listening any more."

It's nice he fiddled with an online widget, but Hawkins really has no credibility on the subject of state fiscal affairs.