More on oil in the Bush

I should add that the energy handout money that was distributed with the PFD last fall was disproportionately beneficial to those living in the cities, where costs are less, and with regard to supplies, not very helpful if you can't get things in and out very well. When you're not on the road system, and the rivers are frozen, you've got air and overland as your choices. Not cheap, not easy. And airlifts are dependent on the weather.