>>re: I submit that you must not have read my post carefully.
oh, I did, you accused Bush of just talking and doing anything. I one of my friends is actually heading one of many projects for hydrogen cells. When Bush took over my friends life became much easier due to new huge government grants. There are hydrogen cell driven cars in production but if you willing to spend enough money I can even arrange for local development team to sell your new and improved experimental kind, which, from what I understand, is much lighter than current production kind.
So Bush is doing far more than Clinton and that is the fact<<
Albert -
Well, no, that wasn't exactly my point. First of all, I wasn't saying that Bush is doing nothing and is only talking. You are correct that he did put forth an energy policy while Clinton did not. (We also didn't get energy policies from Bush the First or Reagan. I don't care. None of that is relevant or meaningful now.)
What I was saying is that I believe the energy policy Bush has put forth is too focused on fossil fuels, and not focused enough on alternative, renewable fuel sources and technologies. I believe the country needs to make developing these technologies a very high priority. It would fit in well with our fight against terrorism, since our dependence on foreign oil creates foreign policy problems.
I'm willing to accept your statement that money may have recently been granted to developers of hydrogen-powered cars, but I'm not aware of any "huge" spending in that area. Certainly nothing close to what we need.
A few fuel cell cars, or ethanol-powered cars, or hybrid cars is not enough. We need to have such vehicles vastly outnumber gasoline-powered cars. And if we are going to have hydrogen powered cars, then we need an infrastructure for the distribution of the hydrogen. If we wait for the market to finance that, we'll be waiting a long time. It will be the classic chicken-egg situation.
- Allen |
