We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Together we have to let the nation in on a valuable secret: When it comes to our natural resources, Alaskans know what we're doing.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.