According to the U.S. Department of Energy Policy Report, issued in May 2001, “in the spring of 2001, when Vice President [Dick] Cheney issued the [Bush] administration’s national energy plan, the one that had been devised in secret by corporations and lobbyists that he still refuses to name, the report included this declaration: ‘The Persian Gulf will be a primary focus of U.S. international energy policy.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Pages 118-119