text: The pre SB-21 CBR was 13 billion dollars ( the exact amount needed to build a gas line  ) until Parnell gave it to the oil companies. No industry except crude oil is,or has been, promoted by the oil company representatives in our Legislature. No infrastructure has ever been considered that provides any incentive for business Alaska that does not serve the oil industry. Companies , other than oil, find it cost prohibitive to operate in Alaska because of the high utilities, and logistics. They either have no access, or it costs too much to operate a business in an oil monopoly. Republicans have done this to Alaska intentionally to get the PFD when it is at it's highest point ever. They refuse to proceed with potential new sources of income such as a gas line,or Cannabis, or alternative energy projects that would lower the cost of doing business in an all out effort to keep the oil industry profitable, for themselves. They are why we NEED the Federal Governments protection.