Hydrogen Economy -- Dead On Arrival

Remember G.W. and his state speech in 2003, how we're paving the way towards our new economy:

With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen and pollution-free.

Well, the SMUD solar powered hydrogen facility, built less than two years ago in partnership with British Beyond Petroleum, is now going to be dismantled...a demonstration on how we are going to spend billions billions! in fits and starts and abortions and dead ends and rotten corpses of pie-in-the-sky projects before we get our hallowed "new economy," "smart grid," or what have you.

Bush missed the barn. The broad side. Obama will miss it too, and this isn't an indictment on either -- it's an indictment on us -- on this stupid fucking notion that we can continue our suburban build out ad infinitum while supposing that all our WalMarts and Targets and their 12,000 mile supply lines will all somehow be powered by electric batteries, that tractor trailers full of imported Chinese shit can be distributed by hydrogen trucks, that Greeley, CO will somehow transport all their Denver commuters by magnetic rail...

Goin' back to Bush's comment -- what will a child born today (2003) be driving in 2019? Won't be a bicycle, god forbid. Won't be his own two feet either. A hydrogen powered personal transporter?

Please.

Nothing but a gasoline powered car.