Drug warnings instead of clean energy- the policy problem

This is like the foreclosure problem. Instead of working on home owners the government tries to bail out banks and sinks the economy.

Washington's new tact: Helping home owners
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON — After pouring vast amounts of money into financial institutions of almost every type, and having little to show for it, the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve are suddenly taking a new look at ordinary homeowners..
The Treasury Department is working on a plan to boost the housing market by subsidizing 30-year home mortgages with rates as low as 4.5

The government should be working on cars and their pollution to prevent the causes of asthma. Instead the government is allowing a failed business model to continue

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and BILL VLASIC
Published: December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON —
In a sign of the growing pessimism among the Democratic leadership, Mr. Dodd; Ms. Pelosi; Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee; and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, wrote to President Bush after Thursday’s hearing urging him to rescue the auto industry.

by only placing warnings for the drugs used.
Warning Given on Use of 4 Popular Asthma Drugs, but Debate Remains
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: December 5, 2008

WASHINGTON — Two federal drug officials have concluded that asthma sufferers risk death if they continue to use four hugely popular asthma drugs — Advair, Symbicort, Serevent and Foradil. But the officials’ views are not universally shared within the government.

As long as experts consultants and policy makers feed from same trough they will be blind to solutions. Messing up renewable energy to benefit a failed business models in autos and fossil fuels is now used as an excuse to not build a successful model.

By KATE GALBRAITH and MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: December 4, 2008
The Energy Challenge
Energy Goals a Moving Target for States
An oil well in the shadow of wind turbines in Abilene, Tex. The state gets 4.5 percent of its electricity from the turbines.
The structure and aggressiveness of the targets varies widely among states...While the country has no shortage of entrepreneurs hoping to build wind turbines and solar arrays, they have been slowed by problems like finding suitable sites, overcoming local political opposition and securing financing. In a few cases, including some in upstate New York, allegations have been made that the developers bribed officials to win approval of their projects.
Fines for missing the targets can run to $25 million a year, but because of fine print in the regulations, the San Diego utility and Pacific Gas & Electric said they did not expect to incur fines; a representative for Southern California Edison said he was not sure.

The government needs to take its own advise on American optimism and just do it. Not closet up back room deals with thugs and failed business executives bent on harming the health of Americans.