I read an article in Sunday's paper about hydrogen power. Hydrogen is currently used in a minute ammount of cars at the present. Hydrogen will burn in a combustion engine the same as gas does. The only residue from burned hydrogen is water vapor, which is absorbed back into the atmosphere only to be rained back to earth. Also, that means no pollution.
To change a current gas burning engine over to hydrogen requires two things. A different tank to hold it and different fuel injectors to feed it into the engine. The current cost is a few thousand $$$ to do it. Also, the cost of a gallon of hydrogen is about $.70 and would be even cheaper when the spring runoff creates excess supply.
If hydrogen cars were built from the ground up, the change over in the plants would be minimal.
This change would eliminate the need for oil. That would eliminate the need to really worry about Middle East oil. If we weren't buying any of their oil, then they could go back to riding camels and playing in their big sand box.
I know that change would eliminate some jobs, but there would be just as many created. There are rivers in just about every country in the world that could create hydrogen from their dams, so no one country would have a monopoly.
The reason hydrogen hasn't already replaced gas is because all the big oil tycoons would be out of a job/money.
IMHO, "who cares"? The planet will run out of oil eventually, so it might as well be sooner than later. Elimination of pollution is the biggest reason for the change and use of an endless supply of energy is the other.
