Butimpugning the motives of other posters is your favorite tactic. Very Clintonian of you.
All I did was pointing out to rudder that switchgrass and poplar trees are not food sources and are grown in places where food is not grown.
Yes I think corn ethanol is a boondogle, but that doesn't mean you throw out the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to bio-fuels and bio-diesel.
JMO, anything that gets the US off OPEC oil is fine with me and that means more drilling, coal, nuclear, solar, hydrogen, bio-fuels from weeds and uly trees, bio-fuels from algae, etc. Just because I promote such thing as hydrogen doesn't mean I'm kissing al gore's ring, either.
And also one must face the fact that if there is a hydrogen car, the oil industry is going to lose out, and the oil industry does employ a lot of people, a lot of people have oil stocks in their portfolios, and has a lot of influence in govt.
That said I do believe that some posters do have an interest in oil and dismiss any oil alternative out of hand because of that interest.
Oh, you did a lot more than that, Dane. You then turned around, in your usual snot-nosed manner, and implied that Jean must be associated with oil producers. Just like you imply that those who are opposed to illegal immigration must be a bunch of sheet-wearing racists. And it's tiresome, and does nothing but turn threads into flame-a-thons. Given how often you pull these stunts, one must wonder if that is what you enjoy - causing conflict.
Well, once we find a hydrogen mine, please ping me.
Until then, hydrogen is a energy transfer mechanism and not a source of energy per se. It might be viable to generate hydrogen by cracking it off hydrocarbons, but the hydrocarbons still have to come from somewhere. Likewise, it can be generated through electrolysis, but the electricity has to come from somewhere.