PRESIDENT Bush came to Washington as the chosen son of the state of Texas. For those who have never watched American television programmes about Texas (there was a time when nothing else seemed to be on) it is important to note that it is still oil country. Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, have both had financial interests in oil, though in Texas the relationship between man and oil often reaches beyond money to the spiritual.
The Bush administration has been crafting an energy policy, something Clinton never got around to doing. The suspicion has been that the big oil…
