While at their 2008 national convention in Denver, Democrats presented a campaign platform that included an immediate rebate for consumers confronting high gasoline prices and billions of dollars in investments to “establish a green energy sector that will create up to 5 million new jobs.”In the New American Energy plank of the platform’s first part, “Renewing the American Dream,” it said: “We know we can’t drill our way to energy independence and so we must summon all of our ingenuity and legendary hard work, and we must invest in research and development, and deployment of renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind, and geothermal, as wel...