Re: Kerry's Proposed $30 BILLION Study
I don't think there needs to be a whole lot more studying being done on this, we know how to do it. It is implementing it that is the problem. A hydrogen fillup station is a very different animal to a gas station, the cost of converting the infrastructure would be enormous. Also, like was previosly said, generating the hydrogen takes a lot of energy. The logical way to get that energy is nuclear power, but there has not been a new reactor built since Three Mile Island. A combination of nuclear and hydroelectric energy, creating hydrogen to power fuel cell equiped vehicles is the most viable answer to eliminating our dependance on oil, but it is far, far away from happening. The near term solution is hybrid technology. If a massive deisel locomotive is nothing but an engine driving an electric generator that is powering the wheels, why can that not be implemented in an automobile? The current hybrid tech still has the gas engine driving the car with some assistance from the eletric motor. A small diesel engine driving a generator powering electic motors on the wheels is a far more efficient way to get it done, but there is something blocking this from happening, and it is money. How is anyone supposed to make money on fuel efficient vehicles when they can convince us we need 350 horsepower to get the kids to soccer practic? Its our own damn fault, we are the ones buying the gas hogs, why should they change anything? Hell I drive a Ford F150 with a 351 in it, so I am just as bad. I had a Suzuki Sidekick before that, and was perfectly happy until I needed something to tow and haul loads. I compensate by only driving the truck when I need to, a few times a week. I spend less money on, and use less gas drivng than with the Sidekick (because I bring the work truck home), but not everyone has that luxury. Like I said in a post a long time ago, we can drive the gas hogs if we want, but we can't complain about the cost if we choose to be wasteful. The oil will go away in our lifetime, and if something isn't done ahead of time, we will be in the stone ages again. Everything we do depend on oil. Plastic comes from oil, what will happen when we have not figured out a way to make plastic without oil? Everything we do is plastic now. That alone will cripple us as a society, never mind not having gas. It will not be pretty. If Kerry can spend 30 billion and actually come up with a solution, that is fine. The government wastes money on worse things all the time (I won't even mention the big waste that is happening now). If Kerry burns 30 billion on a pointless wasteful study that accomplishes nothing, then that is a bad thing. Just to keep things fair, Bush wants to spent gobs of cash on space travel. Hey, I am all for that, but what good will it be to send a manned mission to Mars if we can't even drive to the store because we are out of fuel? The only problem I have with Bush right now is that his priorities are not focused on what we need right now, as well as the near future. As our president and the leader of the world, he needs to implement policy that will help us as a society to acheive healthy progress, not waste money on needles programs. It just isn't happening right now, and that is the problem. People want Bush out not because he is a bad man, it is because he is a bad president. Kerry will probably not be much different, but this election will be based on this one thing: We know Bush is a bad president, we don't know what Kerry will do, so do we go with the known flawed administration or do we take a chance on a new flawed administration. I know, you Bush lovers will start the flame fest, but take a step back and actually look, our country is in a world of hurt, and none of this was going on 3.5 years ago. Coincidence? (PS), don't even start the "your a liberal poopypants" business, I just want things to improve, I could give a hairy rats arse if it is a rep or a dem that gets it done....If anyone is mad about what I have said, go click the link on the "redneck rollercoaster" post, that'll cheer ya up.
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