To a man with a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail.

When you elect a lawyer whose entire reason for being is warring with the oil companies, he will make war against the oil companies regardless of the jobs lost, the economics involved, or the outcome for the state.

The only way to monetize natural gas on the slope is convert it to synthetic diesel and batch ship it down TAPS for sale around the Pacific Rim. 

Warring against the producers - our business partners - will only serve to chase more jobs out of the state, all to the cheers and adulation of the Backbone / Alaska First Walker supporters.  One of the reasons people quit shooting themselves in the foot is because it hurts too much.  Appears the economic crash has not yet been sufficiently painful yet.  But it will.  It will.  Cheers -