Sure, I have ranted briefly about this before.  Yet, I was pleased to see Dvice deliver a piece about Hydrogen Hype.  I’d encourage you to watch how the government handled the first electric car in Who Killed the Electric Car? because Hydrogen is on the path to destruction, in my opinion.  Good riddance I say, because it is all about money and control.

See, the major thing keeping us from changing from gasoline to something else is infrastructure.  How can we replace all these gas stations with an alternative fuel station?  The best people to invest in such a thing would probably be the folks with the gas stations, right?  Well, tell me again why they should open another station across the street in direct competition with themselves?  Sure, we are going to run out of gasoline and what would they be left with then?  It’s the chicken before the egg argument, we can’t have new stations if there are no hydrogen vehicles, but we won’t buy the vehicles if we have no where to fuel them.

We are a capitalist country and it is in God, the Bottom Line We Trust.   This whole energy debate isn’t about non-renewable resources or global warming, it is about dollar bills.  It’s not about costs, but profits.   Fuel Cell vehicles keep oil companies alive as energy providers.  We don’t need infrastructure with plug-in electric vehicles.  What about the range of electric?  Fuel Cell is not much better and the amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen and the complicated procedures are far more expensive than our friend, the electric car.  Right now, hydrogen is produced using natural gas.  We are not exactly moving too far away from fossil fuels with this fuel cell business are we.

Read the Dvice link, short & to the point.  If you want more, check out Joseph Romm in this nice short post, he has a great book on the subject too if you are hungry for more.  Me, I am trying to power my car with my own emissions, like my bovine buddy over there in the pic collecting his own methane.