President George W. Bush, in his January 2002 State of the Union speech delivered only months after the 9/11 attack, famously referred to what he termed the “Axis of Evil”—Iran, Iraq (still under Saddam Hussein) and North Korea. Well, the Axis of Evil has grown over the past 20 years—and changed. And one of those changes is its hold on or access to energy, especially crude oil. Let’s call it the Energy Axis of Evil.