布什上台不久，美国新能源危机就初见端倪，首先在西部的加利福尼亚州出现电力供应短缺，在美国信息工业的心藏地区——硅谷地区两次断电，纳斯达克指数狂泻，给美国经济造成重大的影响。布什政府被迫成立以副总统切尼为组长的能源特派组，并责成能源部迅速制订出新能源战略，对付这场新能源危机 Shortly after Bush took office, the U.S. new energy crisis began to take shape. First, there was a shortage of electricity in the west of California. In the Silicon Valley area, the heart of the U.S. information industry, power was cut off twice, and the Nasdaq index was raging. The U.S. economy has a major impact. The Bush administration was forced to set up an energy mission group headed by Vice President Cheney and instructed the Department of Energy to quickly formulate a new energy strategy to deal with this new energy crisis.