Capitalists Get What The World Market Will Bear. Are you a capitalist?  At least 100 companies would be happy to step into the shoes of the big three and give Alaska a much larger slice of the profits. We should be getting a share of profits comparable to what BP happily pays other countries. Problem is a majority of our Legislature is either too dumb to look at world market or accepting payment from guys like Bill Allen to not look. In 2004  I accused a majority of our Legislature of accepting bribes to give our oil away and got lots of unflattering "Prove it" accusations from guys like you. In 2006, 2007, and 2008, I proved it, and Federal Prosecutors put ten lobbyists and legislators behind bars. You seem to think it is about sympathy for the oil companies; no,  it's about getting oil companies to pay Alaska as much as they pay other countries for access to their oil. And about that stuff they built, who do you think discovered and built the fields in those other countries?