Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush

Lies have short legs, used to say my mother. So now from Britain comes this insight on the composition of the energy task force that Cheney so zealously wants to keep undisclosed. We knew that big corporations slept in the Lincoln bedroom, but this report from the British Guardian shows how EXXON advised the White House on energy policy. Condoleeza Rice is a shareholder in Texaco, so we now know why all of them want nothing to do with Kyoto, or want to hear about global warming, world oil production peaking or any scenario that does not depict massive oil production and energy consumption for ever. We suspected as much, but we are moving towards certainty. This Administration is wrong on energy policy as it is on almost everything else. As we say in Spain: "Let God catch me duly confessed!". Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush