Previous efforts to begin the 16-day mission had been hampered by bad weather and fuel leaks.
It does address the root problem, defaulting mortgages, and Mr Bernanke has long worried that bad debt would fuel a vicious circle of crippled lenders, constricting credit, weakening growth and more defaults.
Airlines get a bad environmental rap for their fuel-burning emissions, but several are taking steps to reduce their mile-high carbon footprints.
In the long term it may not be such a bad thing to get people thinking about fuel efficiencies and even using public transportation rather than driving everywhere they have to go.
Then came the 1970s, with the rise of Germany and Japan during a time of higher fuel prices, inflation, a bad stock market and skyrocketing borrowing costs.
That has given a big boost to domestic spending but raised concerns that the flood of liquidity will push up inflation, fuel bubbles in shares and housing, and store up bad loans.
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Even in Namibia, peaceful now for a decade, the ranchers--most of them white--nervously watch as the government restricts their ownership of rifles and diesel fuel and wonder if life wouldn't be so bad in Germany or the United States.
Bad news for the electric power grid is usually good news for the fuel-cell industry.
But what's bad for energy companies is good for everybody else--especially Asia's fuel-intensive airlines and manufacturing giants.
The priority is, as it has been all along, to restore adequate coolant to the fuel ponds and the reactors themselves - while hoping that earthquake aftershocks and bad weather do not hamper operations any more.
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