Give the state gov the PFD earnings and they will piss it away just like the initial swell of revenue from '77? when TAPS started flowing until the "first crash" in '85.
Bastids could not spend that money fast enough nor hold back on things too stupid. Why expect anything different now?
And that's a big part of the reason we get into the trouble we're in now. When things start booming, stuff...needs...which we haven't been able to afford for years, suddenly become, "Oh, here, we know you've waited for this new school for years, and we know $15 million will make a nice one. But we have gobs of money now, so here's $30 million instead. Make sure you build a big one with plenty of surface area since you live where the wind blows strong and regular. That way you can help keep the demand for Alaskan oil high."
And so we strap ourselves with stuff that we can't afford when times get tough.
