At the end of the day, all the scare talk about Iran getting nuclear weapons is a red herring. Today's global power struggle today is about who gets to squeeze the last dime out of the last drop of oil in the planet, and who controls how much the rest of us have to pay for whatever replaces oil as the new energy source.
If, when the last oil well coughs up dust, Iran has a viable nuclear industry and is a full partner in an axis of energy that includes Russia and China, then Dick and Dubya's big oil buddies will be riding bicycles to work.
Huber's conclusion gives a credible context to the secrecy that shrouded Cheney's 2001 meeting with the energy task force (denied by industry officials into November of 2005) and would further help explain why Exxon Mobil corp plans to sell off its gas stations.
