9/11 effect on energy policy? Not much - POLITICO.com Print View

“Mideast oil funds terrorism,” said then-Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski, a supporter of ANWR drilling, in a Sept. 17, 2001, article by Greenwire.
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A month after the attacks, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman drew a similar line between gas-guzzling Americans and the financing of Saudi schools that preach hostility to non-Muslims. Friedman went on to quote a Johns Hopkins foreign policy specialist as saying: “Either we get rid of our minivans or Saudi Arabia gets rid of its textbooks.”