Reducing Alaskan oil taxes without an explicit linkage to more Alaskan investment is just bad business. That’s what I learned from spending all of last summer and fall talking to voters, one at a time. The majority of them told me that the right approach to oil tax reform was to be business-like in our dealings with the oil industry. Lowering oil taxes is fine, they told me, if it leads to more Alaskan jobs, more wells, more oil in the pipeline.