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Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans
hey writes "An article titled Fuel-cell vehicles run clean, but is their future clear? in the Japan Times says Honda is leasing fuel-cell cars to individual Americans. The article mentions: 'Honda officials said it is easier for the automaker to start leasing in the U.S. because there are more hydrogen gas installations there than in Japan.'"
Nothing is going to happen while Bush and Chaney has dips in the political office writing giant tax-dollar-sucking unnecessary oil consulting projects for Halliburton. Well, somebody's got to say it.
If your government wouldn't interfere (military bases in Saudi Arabia, etc.) you'd have the same fuel cost as in Europe.
Of course it costs energy. No system can achieve 100% efficiency.
MRSH-Recording device, corned beef sandwich with kraut, seafaring bird, and the foamy top of a beverage.
Ethanol and biodiesel alternatives cannot be sustained at present levels of consumption. Hydrogen-based methods are presently just lunacy, being essentially based on pre-burning hydrocarbons (either in direct conversion or in running your electrolysis getup), which of course means they are even less efficient.
The only real solutions are to make cars with tiny 20 hp high-efficiency engines and to have an effective public transportation system. I've seen the latter in Japan. I also suggest that this whole "mobile workforce" paradigm that capitalists seem to love be abandoned, since it creates a wasteful transportation burden on labor while making it easier for corporations to exploit same. We should be working in collectives, comrades. You have nothing to lose but your polluting commute.