Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil int

The first thing I notice is that "with" modifier. Does it make sense for Alaska to "deposit... with the intention?" Can a state have an intention? Seems questionable. I suppose the people of the state could, but I don't love it.

Then there's the phrase, "economy after exhaustion." So there's a pre-exhaustion economy and a post-exhaustion economy? Again, seems questionable, but I'm not 100% convinced it's a concrete error.

Let's hold on to it for now, but the other options are going to have some pretty serious problems for me to choose this one.


"The intention of which," jumps out here. What is "which" describing? The intention of the fund? The intention of the state? It's not totally clear.

And then there's the "they" towards the end. I don't see any plural noun that "they" could logically refer to here. So (B) is out.


This seems pretty good. Here "intended" clearly describes the "fund," and it no longer seems as though it's the state of Alaska that's consciously intending to do something.

(C) also gets rid of the goofy phrase "economy after exhaustion." Instead, we're talking about the "economy after oil reserves are exhausted." Much clearer.

Because this one cleans up the confusing meaning issues that cropped up in (A), we'll keep (C) and ditch (A).


I don't like the phrase "exhausting its oil reserves." Who or what is doing the exhausting? It kind of sounds as though the fund is sustaining the state's economy after the fund exhausts its reserves. That clearly makes no sense -- and at the very least, (D) is far murkier than (C). So (D) is out.


Again, there's nothing for "they" to refer to here.

So (E) is gone, and (C) is our winner.