[Eco] Tom Vilsack's energy plan

[Rebecca Stallings]

I already knew that Barack Obama has a solid environmental record. 
Looks like Tom Vilsack also is a good presidential choice, 
environmentally speaking:

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It Takes a Vilsack to Raise Our Hopes
Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack outlines bold energy and climate plan

If Democratic presidential long-shot Tom Vilsack had his way, the U.S. 
would embrace a mandatory cap-and-trade system to slash greenhouse-gas 
emissions 75 percent by 2050, break its oil addiction, and create 
hundreds of thousands of clean-energy jobs. This week, the former Iowa 
governor became the first presidential hopeful to outline a detailed 
energy policy. Just picture it: new power plants carbon-free by 2020; 
fuel providers reducing carbon emissions 1 percent a year for a decade; 
a 25-cent-per-gallon federal tax credit for cellulosic ethanol 
production; a nigh-unto-petroleum-free transportation system by 2040; 
and the Energy Department -- now "an advocate for fossil-based fuel 
providers" -- renamed the Department of Energy Security. Ballsy! Vilsack 
even pledged to green his stumping by offsetting his travel and office 
electricity use. "[O]ur nation's destiny truly hangs in the balance," he 
said. While he checks "become proficient in hyperbole" off his to-do 
list, feel free to salivate.
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		---'Becca