The comments to the article at Huffpo are interesting. They’re along the lines of, “who cares—we need to change our energy paradigm....for some fuzzy, undefined reason...polar bears are cute!”
We are all Americans. Conservatives and Liberals would both be happy if somebody could figure out how to make cars run on hydrogen. No need for oil. The sand monkeys in Saudi Arabia can go back to the 16th century. (It's not un-PC, I happen to be a sand monkey so I have license to say that)
We'd all be holding hands on the steps of Capitol Hill and singing kumbaya like we did after 9/11.