Dear No More Dems or Reps,
The problem of hydrogen cars is that additional Hydrogen is made from propane. If you are getting Hydrogen from hydrolysis, from clean electricity, then hydrogen cars make environmental sense. Why not just burn propane, instead of Hydrogen? Mercedes has had test Hydrogen cars for years.
US Government investments have developed Hydrogen gas stations, but propane is safer and cheaper. After cracking off the Methane from Propane, to make Hydrogen, what will be done with the left over Methane? It will be sold and burned, so the C02 will go into the air anyway. So the Carbon will be going into the atmosphere anyway, why not just be honest, and burn the propane directly in vehicles?
The economic question is how can a pricing structure be created to actaully make Hydrogen affordable, or realistically competitive in true price?
Similarly, ethanol, takes 1 2/3 gallons to make one gallon of Ethanol.
Ethanol
Ethanol only makes sense because of US Government subsidies for making Ethanol.
Another Dilemna is that one way to make Hydrogen more competitive in price, is tax Gasoline at a higher rate. For US security interests, it is better to tax US produced oil at a higher rate, so that foreign oil will be burned first. By conserving oil from US oil fields, national security and independence is increasesd. How can a tax basis for oil be formulated to save US Oil for the future, and just burn foreign oil, that is a less reliable source?
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