Matt Haughey gathered up what we already know.
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2000 campaign: $1,889,206
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2004 campaign: $2,596,725Price of a barrel of crude oil at the beginning of 2001: about $23
Price of a barrel of crude oil at the end of April, 2008: nearly $120
Maybe we didn’t know there’s $1 trillion profits to OPEC predicted for 2008.