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Stumbling economy pushes energy issues to back burner

With credit markets in gridlock and a national debt skyrocketing, the economic crisis has overshadowed new energy plans.

The price of energy -- from soaring electric bills to pain at the gas pump -- remains a central issue in the presidential election, but the candidates' ability to address it at a time of economic free fall remains a source of considerable debate.

With a lockup of credit markets, increasing unemployment and a soaring national debt, the economy has already far eclipsed new energy initiatives...

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