While Clinton was in office. I remember reading about it back in 2005, but can't find the link. It was an interview with Simmons. (It used to be that only a handful of links turned up when you searched on Matt Simmons' name. Now there are tons.)

Here's a mention in a article archived at EB, though it's not the one I remember:

In the run-up to Bush winning the Presidency in 2000, he hired Simmons to help write and edit his energy plan. Simmons had previously warned Bill Clinton’s administration of impending oil shortages.

And to cynically say that Clinton was lying when he says no one told him about peak oil is cynicism bordering on the absurd.

Oh yes! You are so right! Because people never lie, and the history of leaders is filled with truth and helpfulness to the ruled.

You have lifted the veil for all!

This is what I said, not what you said I said, "The CIA, DOD, and the National Security establishment exist mainly to make sure the oil flows." Read the NAS report. Everybody knew about Peak Oil, meaning of course everybody who is keeping the flow of oil going. You might due better to read more and deal with others with more information and less emotion.

Here is your 'wierd conspiracy theory' from Wiki...Ron, you should really do what you urge of others...a simple Google search will turn up tons of hits connecting various US government organizations to continuing the flow of ME oil. This is really a no-brainer and yet you call it 'stupid Hyperbole'...I really question your motives because I believe that you are too intelligent to believe what you are posting here at times. Notice that the CIA operation to assinate this democratically elected Iranian prime minister was run by Kermit Roosevelt Jr...No conspiracy here, move along, move along...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mossadegh

Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mossadeq (help·info)) (Persian: محمد مصدق‎ Moḥammad Moṣaddeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (19 May 1882 – 5 March 1967) served as the Prime Minister of Iran[1][2] from 1951 to 1953. He was democratically elected to the parliament, and as leader of the nationalists was twice appointed prime minister by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament.[3] Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today known as British Petroleum (BP).

He was eventually removed from power on August 19, 1953, by military intervention. The coup d'état was supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments and was led by General Fazlollah Zahedi [4]. The American operation to encourage it was run by CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.,[5][6] the grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and came to be known as Operation Ajax,[5] after its CIA cryptonym, and as the "28 Mordad 1332" coup, after its date on the Iranian calendar.[7] Dr. Mosaddeq was imprisoned for three years and subsequently put under house arrest until his death. He is, in many countries, considered a symbol of anti-imperialism.