text: As long as we play with agency budgets and do not provide funding to a staff large enough to audit all the oil companies on an on gong basis it will remain a problem.  Every now and the the legislature indicated they will privatize some of the auditing. When asked about the cost they toss out these huge cost figures.  When asked why they will not simply increase the budget for the existing state agency they toss out that would increase the number of state employees.  Then neither plan goes forward.