11.   Already, oil executives are indicating that the amount of oil flowing out of Azerbaijan will not exceed the capacity of the existing pipelines for some time.

12.   Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were both oil company executives in Texas.

13.   Bush is a former oil company executive and Cheney recently headed a Texas company, Halliburton, that services the oil industry.

14.   But at present every right-thinking oil executive wants to do business there.

15.   Bush, too, is a former oil industry executive.

16.   But critics say Bush, a former oil executive, mostly rides the political tides of Texas, seldom taking tough environmental stands unless the pressure is overwhelming.

17.   But foreign oil executives are not so sure.

18.   By that logic, oil executives may have picked up rumblings from ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries before the mid-year meeting that ended this week.

19.   Cheney has spent too many years in board rooms in the company of oil executives in Texas to speak knowledgeably about this issue.

20.   Cheney, a former oil executive, chairs the cabinet-level task force that produced the White House energy strategy Bush hopes to get through Congress.