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HILLARY CLINTON: Framed as an engine of economic stimulus, Clinton has been a recent champion of a nationally funded "green-collar" job program that would train tens of thousands of workers a year in the design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of renewable-energy and energy-efficiency technologies. She says her energy plan would create 5 million new jobs.

She proposes a requirement that oil companies invest in renewable energies, or pay a fee that would go toward the creation of a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund. It's modeled after DARPA, the Cold War-era program that encouraged academics and entrepreneurs to tackle new technologies that could help give the United States a military advantage (and that, eventually, led to the creation of the Internet). That fund would pay for:

• tax incentives for home and businesses that become more energy efficient.
• tax credits for gas stations that provide ethanol pumps.
• loan guarantees to help commercialize cellulosic biofuels.
• other incentives for new technologies, including research in "clean coal."

Cleantech donors:

• Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures: $2,300
• Mark Maloney, Paladin Capital Group: $4,600
• Michael Steed, Paladin Capital Group: $4,600
• Leonard Jeffrey, Global Environment Fund: $4,600
• Richard Kauffman, Good Energies: $4,600

Car: Mercury Mariner Hybrid - 25 mpg

League of Conservation Voters score: 90/100