Looks like the Democrats are trying to make some headway into creating energy policy. As you may have already seen, a popular Democrat obsession is the perception that oil companies are making windfall profits and gouging the consumers (e.g. Harry Reid's blog). I hope to return to this topic on TOD—to vent my frustration with it—very soon.

Along similar lines, Senator Hillary Clinton recently gave a speech to the Cleantech Venture Forum, which describes itself like this:

The Cleantech Venture Network LLC is a membership organization bringing insight, opportunities and relationships to investors, entrepreneurs and service providers interested in clean technology. We do this through related information products, advisory and online services, and the Cleantech Venture Forum series of events.

We introduced the "cleantech" concept in 2002 and have since popularized it as a viable investment category. We believe cleantech is one of the next and necessary waves of business innovation. Our goal is to ensure "good money meets good deals".

I don't need to provide commentary on Clinton's speech, since Dave Roberts on the Gristmill blog has so eloquently done it for me. Go read what Roberts has to say. (Also, you shouldn't miss Roberts' dissection of the concept of "reducing dependence on foreign oil".)