Bush Plan for H-Cars Most Sci-Fi Since SDI
New York Times | Piece of Shit Car...
Promoting the technology in his State of the Union address a year ago, Mr. Bush said a hydrogen car might be available as the first vehicle for a child born in 2003. On Monday, the Energy Department included $318 million for both fuel cells and hydrogen production in its 2005 budget. ... The Bush administration anticipates mass production of hydrogen cars by 2020. But the academy study [by the National Academy of Sciences], released Wednesday, said some of the Energy Department's goals were "unrealistically aggressive." ... [T]he least-expensive methods of hydrogen production use fuels like coal or natural gas, and those create pollution, experts say. Hydrogen is also difficult to ship and store. In addition, power from fuel cells is far more costly than the same amount of power from a gasoline engine.
How about we push the far more economical/ecological hybrids? Or, an even better free market solution would be to issue pollution credits to car makers and scrap the CAFE system that has brought us nothing better than the Aspire. If it's state-based, you could float CA for a few months on the revenue... [*]