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Alaska's Permanent Fund, once funded by oil extraction, is now funded through investment returns, allowing it to disperse checks to Alaska residents. The US is considering a sovereign wealth fund.
Alaska led the country in the share of students who missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 school year, and there has been an increase in the number of kids who are homeschooled since the pandemic.
Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy unveiled a budget plan Thursday that would pay residents an oil-wealth dividend of about $3,400 next year using a formula that lawmakers have all but abandoned ...
Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope is the highest yielding oil field in the United States and on North America, typically producing about 400,000 barrels per day (64,000 m 3 /d). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can pump up to 2.1 million barrels (330,000 m 3 ) of crude oil per day, more than any other crude oil pipeline in the United States.
In 2012 the oil production of the US increased by 800,000 barrels per day, the highest ever recorded increase in one year since oil drilling began in 1859. [9] In April 2013, US crude production was at a more than 20-year high, aided by the shale gas and tight oil boom; with production near 7.2 million barrels per day. [10]
High oil prices in the 1970s induced investment in oil production by non-OPEC countries, particularly for reserves with a higher cost of production. [39] [40] These included Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, the North Sea offshore fields of the United Kingdom and Norway, the Cantarell offshore field of Mexico, and oil sands in Canada. [41] [42] [43]
The Energy Information Administration expects prices at the pump to average $3.20 per gallon next year, about $0.10 lower than in 2024. Ines Ferre is a senior business reporter for Yahoo Finance ...
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...