It seems the Congress and the Obama administration believes the entire US financial system needed government intervention because of derivative markets, which created an artificial demand for products that exist only by definition. Or that existed only in esoteric form.
But then they support trade in emissions credits?
Where carbon-reducing technologies can be replaced by heat-producing technologies. Where NO ONE knows what, if any, technologies are better for the planet than others.
Where there will be artificial demand for products that exist only by definition.