Clean Energy Victory Bonds, inspired by the Victory Bonds of the WW II era, are a new idea for enabling citizens to help finance the US clean energy economy, including efficiency measures. The Clean Energy Victory Bond is a proposed, new US Treasury Savings Bond that would extend the life of important tax credits for renewable energy industries. The Bond would leverage $50 billion in investment to provide up to $150 billion in public and private financing to fund the production of innovative energy technologies, at a time when the US is falling behind other countries in clean energy manufacture and installation. The Bond would also help create at least 1.7 million competitively-paying jobs in the U.S.