So, what's all that money for, anyway?

It must be a nice thing to pop a quick 7 mill or so into your campaign treasury over the course of a week, but for heaven's sake, why?

Well, if you're John Kerry, one reason is to have the money you need to tell voters about one of the most important, and shockingly least noticed, issues in the campaign.

Kerry breaks new ads in Iowa and New Hampshire today, and they highlight his energy indepence plan. It's an ambitious one, and it's critical. It highlights his leadership on the enviroment and national security. Candidate's running around yammering about getting tough on the Saudis have to admit that this is the critical first step. The best way to get it done is to elect the man with the plan.

Key elements of the Kerry energy independence platform include:

A New ‘Energy Security and Conservation Trust’ to accelerate the commercialization of technologies that will reduce America’s dangerous dependence on oil.

Reducing Oil Dependence by Two Million Barrels of Oil a Day – As Much As We Currently Import From the Middle East. Kerry will provide tax incentives for consumers to buy the vehicles they want and incentives for manufacturers to convert factories to build the more efficient vehicles of the future.

Making Our Homes, Offices, Schools, and Cities More Energy Efficient. Kerry will cut the Government’s energy bill 20 percent by 2020 – saving the Federal government $8 billion over the next ten years - and will challenge municipalities, corporations, universities, small businesses, and hospitals to do the same.

A Plan to Use Hydrogen Throughout the Nation By 2020 – a clean fuel that we can eventually get entirely from renewable sources from our farms, the wind, solar energy, hydropower and geothermal sources.

This is the Real Deal, folks, the stuff this campaign should be about. Kudos to JK for having the right program, and for putting up the resources needed to tell people about it.