Editing Tom Vilsack (section)

===Views on energy security===
The Vilsack Energy Security Agenda set out a strategy to dramatically reduce U.S. reliance on foreign energy and to cut the United States' carbon emissions. It also called for replacing the Department of Energy with a new Department of Energy Security, to oversee and redefine the federal government's role in energy policy. The reorganized department would have acted as an institutional advocate for innovation in energy policy and was intended to ensure accountability as the nation works towards achieving its energy security goals. Through this new department, America's overriding objective in energy policy would have been to make America the unquestioned leader in clean energy, enhancing national security and economic strength.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.TomVilsack08.com |title=Tom Vilsack for President |publisher=Tomvilsack08.com |access-date=September 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023082924/http://www.tomvilsack08.com/ |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>

In a 2007 lecture to the [[Commonwealth Club of California]], Vilsack stated:<ref>{{cite journal| title=On the Record| date=January 14, 2009| first1=Emma| last1=Marris| first2=Alexandra| last2=Witze| journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]| volume=457| issue=7227| pages=242–243| doi=10.1038/457242a| pmid=19148063| doi-access=free}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Iowa is one of the nation's leading producers of [[corn ethanol|corn-based ethanol]], and many people in my state have an economic stake in the expanded use of corn-based ethanol. But the reality is that corn-based ethanol will never be enough to reach our goals. Some have suggested that we import more sugar-based ethanol from Brazil and we should indeed consider all sources of available ethanol{{spaces}}... but if we are going to create energy security we can't simply replace one imported source of energy with another. That alone is not security{{spaces}}... the only way we can produce enough domestically is if we greatly improve the technology used to produce [[cellulosic ethanol]].}}