No Candy for Morlocks

Dr X. posts this from a fortified room into which no liquids are allowed:

"Alaskans get to discover this week what life is like in places where money doesn't continually spout up out of the ground. For one thing, the nice people in the government don't hand out money in quite the same way.

"There can be only one solution - tax breaks to encourage free enterprise. Because, you know, it's just not profitable to drill for oil unless you have financial support from the government."