Hydrogen Car - it is here

[SB Shock]

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/11/mercedes-benz-b-class-fuel-cell-all-hydrogen-powered-vehicle-test-drive-impressions/

the F-Cell touches down in December for consumer leasing, it’s going to be heading to the state of California — mostly Los Angeles and San Francisco where there are plenty of hydrogen stations. You might notice how we said leasing and not purchasing, and that’s because the car will only be offered by way of a lease, and while Mercedes wouldn’t confirm pricing information to us, we’ve heard it will run around $550-$750/month. Definitely on the higher end of the spectrum, but for a car that literally emits water instead of toxic sludge — representing the future of the automotive industry — all we can say is, sign us up.

Just thing instead of spending 50 billion dollars on hiring illegal immigrants to rebuild roads, they spent it on building the infrastructure and IR&D to get the hydrogen cars affordable. That would be transforming.

[BOBB]

Re: Hydrogen Car - it is here

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...e-impressions/

the F-Cell touches down in December for consumer leasing, it’s going to be heading to the state of California — mostly Los Angeles and San Francisco where there are plenty of hydrogen stations. You might notice how we said leasing and not purchasing, and that’s because the car will only be offered by way of a lease, and while Mercedes wouldn’t confirm pricing information to us, we’ve heard it will run around $550-$750/month. Definitely on the higher end of the spectrum, but for a car that literally emits water instead of toxic sludge — representing the future of the automotive industry — all we can say is, sign us up.

Just thing instead of spending 50 billion dollars on hiring illegal immigrants to rebuild roads, they spent it on building the infrastructure and IR&D to get the hydrogen cars affordable. That would be transforming.

Yep. Unfortunately, we've let issues like this get politicized. There are lots of legitimate disagreements between the parties, but protecting the status quo of their monied consitituencies is one area on which they can both agree. Republicans coddled the oil & auto industries while the Democrats supported the unions as they fought any change that would have them giving one inch in pay, benefits or membership. Imagine if Reagan would have kept up just the alternative energy push of Carter (who was a miserably ineffective President). No doubt today we would be nearly independent from foreign oil and leading the world in sales of the technologies that will be the future and would be our present.