Reply #28: The cost of hydrogen

[Puzzler]

Promoting hydrogen is a double "win" for Bush:

1) He knows (or his puppet-masters know) that it will take decades for this to become a viable fuel source, in the US anyway. Thereby making it look like he's doing something now, when he knows that it will not have any impact on the oil industry in the foreseeable future.

2) Even though hydrogen is abundant, it is not abundant on earth in a gas form. It's mainly found in water, which requires lots of energy (read: coal, oil and nuclear electrical power) to "produce" the hydrogen. A win for Bush and his energy-buddies again, if the idea ever gets off the ground


Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the promotion and investigation of alternative fuel technologies (like hydrogen). But if Bush really was serious about US oil-consumption, then he would do something about the promotion of hybrid cars and the manufacture of smaller more fuel-efficient American cars. That's something that can be done right now (today!!!). And as we know, he (and his cronies) have zero interest in doing this. Is it going to take the collapse of GM to change is mind? For the wrong reasons, of course.


-P