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Check out this event sponsored by the Drum Major Institute of Public Policy to Honor Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos here in NYC this week.

Energize America - Achieving U.S. Energy Security by 2020 - Executive Summary - Crossposted from Daily Kos.

Update [2006-5-18 13:3:41 by Super G]: The full Energize America draft is now up at Daily Kos. We're also mirroring the PDF version.

In the next few days, we are going to roll out the new draft of the Energize America plan, and we count on you to help us improve this plan even further before it is unveiled formally during the energy panel at YearlyKos in Las Vegas on June 9.

Today, I am posting the Executive Summary of Draft Five and the list of the 20 Acts included in Energize America which give it its comprehensive and coherent character (we hope). The full plan will be posted tomorrow morning on DailyKos.

In the spirit of this endeavor, I ask that you comment and criticize this Executive Summary. As it is likely to be the first (and in many case, the only) document that most people will see, it needs to be compelling and convincing, and we count on your help to improve it further. So fire away with your comments, ideally with suggestions in complement to whatever criticism you may have.

Draft Five was prepared by George Karayannis (DoolittleSothere), with the help of the full Energize America team. Full credits will be given tomorrow.

A dedicated group of diarists over at Daily Kos have been hammering away at developing a "comprehensive and coherent U.S. energy policy that could be used by Democrats and other energy security advocates." Their latest draft is entitled Energize America: A Blueprint for U.S. Energy Security. The post has descriptions of marketing material (bumper stickers, sound bites, and flyers) as well as actual legislation proposals.

To give you a taste, I've put the business card version below the fold, but I encourage you to follow the link for the whole story. I will forward your comments on to the authors.

Update [2005-12-13 12:22:59 by Super G]: Remember, TOD is non-partisan, so if you are aware of similar efforts on the right, please draw our attention to them.