text: So, putting the subsurface rights in the hands of a select few that could afford land would have benefitted all Alaskan's how?  We are a colony of whom? Should  I suppose that building the state's infrastructure rather than padding the PFD was the wrong way to go in the early days of statehood? How did OPEC collude with AK Democrats to crash the economy?  I thought Palin and Parnell were Republicans with veto powers?