"Lets say we go the tax credit route. Why is that so unappealing. There is a incentive for industry to use cleaner technology. That benifits us all."
Tax credits might be good for cleaner energy, but beware the carbon credit trading, trade-n-cap schemes. These are unverifiable international money laundering schemes. Keywords - hydrogen, reducing pollution, ending reliance on foreign oil - good. Whenever you hear "carbon" only, presume it's a scam.
There was a moment in 2001 I thought Bush would make a grand move and make a big government project into hydrogen, none of this "market-based" junk when the "market" is against moving off oil.
He never did it.
Tahts a good point. It is weird that hydrogen is not much of a issue. I thought that in California there was a huge move to do that but I lost track of how that was going
It doesn't make much sense to create hydrogen as a fuel source when you have to burn natural gas to make it. The only other alternative is to build a couple hundred new nuclear plants to do it, and that idea isn't going to happen until we exhaust all other energy sources.