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Comment on Oil, Gas & Juneau by One View of the Future, and its Not Good for Alaska | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:57:31 +0000

[...] I discussed this scenario before the Senate Resources Committee early in the recent legislative session, Senator Stedman said [...]

Comment on Why Marginal Tax Rates Matter to the “Average Guy” by Busting the “Myth Busters”: Where the Alaska Dispatch Went Wrong | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:47:35 +0000

[...] rather than the slightly lower rates for federal taxes I originally used. As I have explained in another piece, the marginal federal rate is the correct rate to use in the analysis because the current debate is [...]

Comment on Busting the “Myth Busters”: Where the Alaska Dispatch Went Wrong by Why Marginal Tax Rates Matter to the “Average Guy” | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:38:32 +0000

[...] an article responding to recent columns by Andrew Halcro and me, the Alaska Dispatch’s Amanda Coyne concludes that “Alaska’s oil tax myths, [...]

Comment on What is Bill Wielechowski reading? by Busting the “Myth Busters”: Where the Alaska Dispatch Went Wrong | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:58:56 +0000

[...] statement it is just flat out wrong. As I explained in a commentary on these pages responding to Senator Wielechowski that predated the Dispatch series, the leases that cover most of [...]

Comment on Oil, Gas & Juneau by Busting the “Myth Busters”: Where the Alaska Dispatch Went Wrong | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:58:52 +0000

[...] – Alaska is facing a very difficult future. Or, as I put it to the Senate Resources Committee in recent testimony, the effect of a longer life for TAPS may mean that the “person that turns the lights off on [...]

Comment on Alaska’s economic future is at stake by Alaska Oil| North Slope employment study: Useful, but not Determinative | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:59:01 +0000

[...] oil. See “Its our oil … but its their investment” (Mar. 2010), and “Alaska’s Economic Future Is At Stake,” (Nov. 2009). Simply stated, the share of oil revenues state government is taking is so [...]

Comment on Alaska Oil| A Better “Picture Worth a Thousand Words” by Alaska Oil| North Slope employment study: Useful, but not Determinative | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:58:59 +0000

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Comment on It’s our oil… but it’s their investment by Alaska Oil| North Slope employment study: Useful, but not Determinative | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:51:33 +0000

[...] contributor to that decline is the current fiscal structure applicable to Alaska oil. See “Its our oil … but its their investment.” Simply stated, the share of oil revenues state government is taking is so high, oil [...]

Comment on Alaska Oil| North Slope employment study: Useful, but not Determinative by Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:34:03 +0000

You bring up several interesting points. I too would like to know whether or not the industries can work with our state universities to make sure we are developing a labor force ready to move into these jobs. Also, people fail to realize that is not easy or cheap to get our oil out of the ground and to market. Proper incentives need to be in place for both sides. That in itself is easier said than done.

Comment on Alaska’s Future: Sen. McGuire’s proposed competitiveness review is important by Alaska’s Future| Focusing on the end result | Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:37:50 +0000

[...] heavily on front end expenditures — exploration and early development efforts. As explained elsewhere on these pages, those types of credits do not create incentives for substantial, long-term [...]