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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: JDN who wrote (706157)10/6/2005 4:53:18 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I don't share your belief that we are spending all the money that can prudently be spent. We didn't spend all we needed to on the New Orleans levees, for example.

Sometimes goverment needs to step in and push - hard.

With hydrogen, you need an available fuel supply before automakers will produce the vehicles - and the fuel supply won't be available until cars are around to use it. So who goes first?

Government grants and subsidies were essential to much of what we take for granted. Many rural areas would not have electricity or telephone service today if it were not for government subsidies. The interstate highway system is a goverment project that, by itself, would not be economically viable. The internet was a functioning entity before DARPA stepped away. Government subsidies and tax breaks are essential requirements before wind farms can be viable.

Undoubtedly a goverment crash program to speed the arrival of hydrogen would waste billions - but it would be billions well wasted.
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