As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

Evans expressed sympathy but did nothing to intervene. a large independent energy company now based in Denver. In 1975 Evans moved to Midland Texas from Houston and began working on an oil rig for Tom Brown Inc.

He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Donald Louis Evans (born July 27 1946) was the 34th U.