Originally posted by Major Kong
HE SHOULD!!! Everyone knows the Yukon is stealing Alaskan Oil from the wildlife refuge!

Plenty of oil, natural gas and low sulfer coal (along with coal bed methane) up here. + geothermal out the ying-yang. Just no infastructure to get to a lot of it (no roads or rail). Makes exploration and development extremely expensive. Eastern Siberia is experiencing the same problems - lot's of minerals, hugely expensive development. The Russian gov't doesn't have the $$$, so they have partnered with BP, Phillips, Exxon Mobile, Barrick, BHP, Anglo-American to help develop their natural resources.
I think the US hasn't touched that supply yet because they still have their sources and why use your own when you can use somebody elses right? Anyways that's just my 0.02