I'm getting a "page not found" message when I click on your link, Amy. The thought police sure move quickly.

Thanks, Patrick. Fixed now. No thought police. Just sloppy blogging!

I guess I can put away my tinfoil reflector beanie, then.

Uh. where do you, or he propose we get the hydrogen? It isn't just floating about, or in a hole in the ground, you've got to forcibly extract it from somewhere.

That somewhere is usually water, and that extraction takes energy - lots of it. More, in fact, than you can get back by burning the hydrogen.

Which goes back to the original question - where to get the energy from. If we extract the hydrogen from oil, then we're still using the oil.

If we extract it from water, we need gobs of electricity - which we get from burning oil.

Unless you want to build a whole bunch of nuclear power plants, but then it would make a whole lot more sense to just come up with some kind of standardized battery for electric cars instead of having all that nice highly explosive liquid hydrogen on the highway.

The whole concept of a 'hydrogen economy' is just about the dumbest thing anyone has ever come up with.

That's the great thing, Brian -- at least for President Bush. He can pay lip service to conservation as a PR move, but secretly wink-wink at his oil biz buddies that the buttloads of cash will keep coming like they always have been.

I'll never understand the hatred for the oil industry. Yes, they charge too much, and it was annyoying when Lee "Chins" Johnson pocketed that 400 million a couple weeks ago. But I LIKE living in an economy based on oil. Warmth in the winter, cool in the summer, fresh food year 'round, smiling babes on every corner.

People should project their hatred of their own conduct onto the oil companies... It's like junkies hating their dealers... It's pathetic.