You ought to post all of what the Center puts on its web pages about the real effect of the tax cuts:
http://www.cbpp.org/6-2-04tax.htm
As far as Rice - She didnt quit Chevron until after she was in the second Bushs administration - and still has all her stock options to exercise
To say no one in this administration is tied to oil - is totally ignoring the way that Bush got his first job (long time ago) when he had his oil company (Arbusto) - granted he totally screwed it up by being a lousy businessman. Cheney didnt just play with oil comapnies - in 1998 and 1999 when he was in charge at Haliburton, he negotiated deals with Saddam Hussein to sell 23.8 million in oil rigs and drilling equipment to him - and the list goes on from the Interior Secretary - on down the line to staff assistants.
If youve never seen the accounts of the parties they used to throw down in Texas for the Taliban when they were trying to get the trans-Afghanistan pipeline (amazing it was right before 9/11 - but then I only deal with real facts and not theories) project going - its amazing that Bush can say the things he does about the Taliban today
Some others - Khalilzad - works for the NSC under Rice - old advisor for Unocal and named special envoy to Afghanistan
L Lindsay - special consultant to Enron - now economic adviser to the president
D Evans - board of directors of Sharp Drilling - oil specialists contractors
and on and on - but then again - I dont subscribe to conspiracy stuff - I just look at facts - you can draw your own biased conclusions on your own - I am certainly not posting my opinions