Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Americans are increasingly worried about their nation’s dependence on oil from the Middle East. Yet the word “energy” doesn’t appear anywhere on Rudy Giuliani’s “12 Commitments to the American People” web page. Guess why?

Back in July, the New York Sun gushed:

Ending America’s dependence on energy from abroad “would be a major factor in our being able to defuse dramatically the reach and the power of Islamic terrorism,” the former mayor said.

To supplant oil imports, Mr. Giuliani called for increased use of ethanol, so-called clean coal technology, nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, and wind-generated power.

Hydro … solar … wind … Sounds good to me!

Uh oh.

This just in, from Bloomberg news:

A lobbying blitz by some of the U.S.’s biggest utility companies is likely to strangle the most potent provision in energy legislation that’s making its way through Congress.

Southern Co., American Electric Power Co. and other producers hired top Washington lobbyists, including Rudy Giuliani’s firm, to help defeat a measure that would force them to boost electricity generated by wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy to 15 percent of the U.S. total by 2020. That’s up from less than 2 percent today …

Giuliani’s campaign says the former New York mayor supports alternative fuels. “He is an advocate for developing renewable energy as a way of achieving energy independence,” spokeswoman Maria Comella says. She didn’t comment on the lobbying effort.