Obama selects yet another CO2-hysteric for his cabinet

This time it's former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack for Ag Secretary

-- Energy security: When he ran for president, Vilsack initially made the focus of his campaign a plan to end U.S dependence on foreign oil by promoting alternative energy sources. "Energy security will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on global warming and climate security, and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil," Vilsack, a prominent proponent of ethanol, biodiesel and wind power, said at the time. Six new power plants were built in the state of iowa during Vilsack's tenure
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-- Support for cap and trade system to regulate carbon dioxide emissions: Vilsack has written a series of op-ed articles that echo Obama's position on the need for a cap-and-trade system to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. “By locking up carbon through clean technologies and generating less carbon through renewable energy sources, we create home-grown carbon credits direct from the family farm,” Vilsack wrote in an Oct. 16 column in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Carbon credits then could be sold on the open market “just as if they were soybeans or lean hogs,” generating “a new revenue stream and creating a new ‘cash crop’ that just happens to help save the planet at the same time,” he added.