Rude: You guys on the left might try the truth sometimes....I hear it's liberating 
I am on the left?
Some of us on the right believe in moral principles rather than pursuit of immediate goal by any means. I would have rather had republicans lose elections on issues than see the senate majority leader endorce the racist quote system and the president toss free-market ideals and jump on environazi's bandwagon. Let alone his other transgressions against conservative values.
Bush is to the left of me - that's my problem. When I voted for him he had republican agenda, not a democratic one.
If you like what he is proposing so much and believe that we should all kowtow to our leader no matter what our opinion in favor of party "unity" - maybe
you should consider voting liberal next time.
The researchers here at USC have been working on Bush funded hydrogen car research for a year now. They were working on it soon after he was elected. The researchers here say the media hasn't mentioned anything about it because what would the environmentalists think? Who cares about the stupid car? If we had hydrogen available, we could burn it in existing internal-combustion engines with minor modifications. The exhaust would be the same water.
Busses in NYC and other places already run on natural gas.
Even if they solve the problem of fuel cell being expencive and easily contaminated, the source of the hydrogen is the problem, its transportarion and storage.
Anyone solved the problem of hydrogen making steel tanks/pipes brittle? Leaking through barriers impervious to other gasses? All the equipment/technology/knowlege used to store/pump/conduct natural and any other gasses is going to be of no use with hydrogen.
What they will do is make us load our cars with huge bulky heavy, slow to recharge and dangerous to operate high pressure tanks of natural gas which will be converted into hydrogen by heavy, bulky and expencive catalyst devices that are contaminated easily and irretrievably.
And that is before it even gets to the "fuel cell". Of course the mileage of a car will take a major hit because of the additional weight and space requirements - which will be compensated by making them out of plastic, the heck with safety.
All that expence and discovery on catalysts could probably be used better to clean up whatever exhaust is produced by today's cars. Of course they still produce "evil" CO2 - but so will the "hydrogen cars" since natural gas is mostly carbon anyway. The fuel cell will not emit CO2 but the the natural gas to hydrogen converter certainly will.
And of course our natural gas infrastructure, production and storage capacity are not nearly sufficient to take over transportation.
It's not like environazis will allow us to build nuclear stations - the only way to produce cheap plentifll hydrgen.
I bet Bush could get additional funding for his miracle car from Al-Qaeda. It's hard for them to hunt down every tanker ship and tanker truck/train delivering fuel now but once we depend on an expencive network of gas/hydrogen pipelines, the terrorists will have a field day.
Oh, yea - if you thought blowing up a gasoline tanker truck or gas station in the middle of the city was bad, wait till it's full of high-pressure hydrogen or liquefied natural gas. The closest thing to nuclear weapon you will ever get.
miko
