Why did Bush say the Afghanistan pipeline project was part of his administrations national energy policy?

In November 2001, the White House released a statement hailing the official opening of the first new pipeline by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, a joint venture of Russia, Kazakhstan, Oman, and several other oil companies�-including BP Amoco. Bush himself declared, ”The CPC project advances my administration’s National Energy Policy." Just nine days after the US-backed [...] http://bit.ly/qIw6Pb