I know there are tax deductions and such for hybrid cars. I think I can understand why the politicians want Hydrogen. By looking at this page: http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp these taxes are used for budgeting everything from road contruction to new projects. The politicians are worried where their sweet money is going to go if this caught on TOO FAST! They would have to get the money from somewhere else and this would mean increasing taxes to compensate the reduction of gas taxes. And Raising taxes does not get one re-elected! By having Hydrogen cars and refueling stations, they can still charge taxes on the refill and keep their current tax structure. This is the new age, you can never rely on only one thing such as this tax to keep everything balanced!
Although I hate dealing with SBC and Verizon and such companies, I believe this is going to benefit other technologies other than DSL. I have a friend who bnow works for a Electric company in Cincinnati Ohio, he has been busier than ever installing Internet over power lines. The up/down streams are very good and in some ways better than cable. Now, WiMax has been growing in popularity as well being able to totally bypass all looping charges. Cable companies such as Timewarner Cable have been good to ok in my opinion. I believe DSL providers are going to see a slower growth in the DSL market and more people are going to move to these other connections for their internet. Heck it is almost cheaper for me to buy a Cell phone internet service with broadband speeds than to purchase the norm.
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I know there are tax deductions and such for hybrid cars. I think I can understand why the politicians want Hydrogen. By looking at this page: http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp these taxes are used for budgeting everything from road contruction to new projects. The politicians are worried where their sweet money is going to go if this caught on TOO FAST! They would have to get the money from somewhere else and this would mean increasing taxes to compensate the reduction of gas taxes. And Raising taxes does not get one re-elected! By having Hydrogen cars and refueling stations, they can still charge taxes on the refill and keep their current tax structure. This is the new age, you can never rely on only one thing such as this tax to keep everything balanced!
Although I hate dealing with SBC and Verizon and such companies, I believe this is going to benefit other technologies other than DSL. I have a friend who bnow works for a Electric company in Cincinnati Ohio, he has been busier than ever installing Internet over power lines. The up/down streams are very good and in some ways better than cable. Now, WiMax has been growing in popularity as well being able to totally bypass all looping charges. Cable companies such as Timewarner Cable have been good to ok in my opinion. I believe DSL providers are going to see a slower growth in the DSL market and more people are going to move to these other connections for their internet. Heck it is almost cheaper for me to buy a Cell phone internet service with broadband speeds than to purchase the norm.