With gasoline prices well over three dollars per gallon and oil prices well over $74 per barrel; where are all the hydrogen cell cars we were promised. There is even a waiting list to buy a hybrid vehicle from either Toyota or Honda, so one has to settle for a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry, which are fine vehicles and certainly giving General Motors and for the run for their money and teaching them a valuable lesson; that we all want cars to get better gas mileage.
However, don't we really all want hydrogen cell cars that don't pollute rather than paying over four dollars per gallon sometime this summer during hurricane season or a preemptive strike on Iran to stop them for building nuclear weapons to give to the terrorist organizations that the sponsor.
Well, it just so happens that hydrogen cell vehicles are all their way but it is to be about a decade or more until you can get one. But the technology is now in the pipeline thanks to President Bush, who has announced; A $1.2 billion Hydrogen Fuel Initiative to develop technology for commercially viable hydrogen-powered fuel cells.
You see, there are still some bugs in need to be worked out with the fuel cell technologies, one he is better materials to hold the hydrogen in and another has to do with the storage of the fuel The fuel station. If your cars filled with hydrogen annual even for three days with the current technology and materials we use for fuel tanks then over one-third would be gone.
So you can see the problem; of course this is only one problem, as an entire distribution system and network of service stations to supply it has to be worked out as well. Nevertheless, The Hydrogen Fuel Initiative brought forth by the Bush administration is pushing the ball forward for; commercially viable hydrogen-powered fuel cells, which would power cars, trucks, homes, and businesses with no pollution or greenhouse gases.
Thanks to initiatives like this in the hard work of the research and development teams in the private sector and at our top universities, as well as the Department of Energy the cost for fuel cells has drastically been reduced by almost 50 percent shows one recent industry report. This is a very good thing for America and for our future. Thank you President Bush.
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