I am sure Joe Biden's son's running for the Senate from Delaware to take his dad's old seat has nothing to do with the Department of Energy's award of 500 million dollars in loans (taxpayer money) to Fisker Automotive after it agreed to manufacture its hybrid cars in Delaware. I am sure Delaware is a very pro-business state - not. Car companies - to the extent they expand at all - are doing so in Southern states because of the work force their and the pro-business policies those states have in place. We were warned that the government would base its investing and spending decisions on political grounds, not economic ones. Here is one example from an article by Neil King in the Wall Street Journal.  When tiny Fisker Automotive Inc. hit a financing glitch last year, threatening its plan to build a fancy gasoline-electric hybrid car in Finland, it turned to the U.S. Department of Energy.The DOE had a bolder idea. Why not also step up the company's plans to develop a less-expensive...(Read Full Post)