Where does oil come from? It doesn’t just get scooped up and put into buckets.
Same with hydrogen.
Main difference is that hydrogen is the most plentiful element on the planet
The stupid, it hurts! Yeah, there's plenty of hydrogen on earth and it is in the form of, wait for it, water. It takes energy to break apart the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. That is like claiming CO2 is energy because the oxygen in it will burn if only we could sprig the oxygen from the carbon.