Worse than the PFD take was cancelling the tax credits to the oil industry as it halted oil fields that were being engineered and most likely would be adding oil to Taps in the next few years.
If Walker wasn't such a phuquetard he'd realize that state could invest millions in the oil industry which would be returned many times over on oil tariffs in an existing pipeline vs. blowing billions on a project that won't be able to collect a penny in tariffs due to the economics of the project.
Unfortunately our state seems to have plenty of people that somehow think oil companies are just greedy entities out to get the state and the mythical gas pipeline is the answer to our economic woes. Some how ignoring the 100 billion or so the oil industry has brought to the state through projects they deemed profitable and maybe thinking if they can't make a profit at it, we should follow their lead.
The only "investment" I can back the state doing is extending the Dalton 200 miles to the West to reach the new discoveries. A "roads to resources" type of thing. The state knows how to build and maintains roads - something they can't fook up too bad.
