(so its not just me....other people are ranting about it too! Grin!)
Nearly everyone in American politics believes we face an energy crisis, and nearly everyone believes we need a technological solution that will make America "energy independent." Americans are, as President Bush put it in his 2006 State of the Union address, "addicted to oil," and in this case our addiction is enriching and empowering those who seek to destroy us. We are funding, if indirectly, the madrassahs that teach vile hatred of Western civilization and the backward cultures that create death-seeking soldiers for Islam. We are, if unwittingly, arming those who wish to kill us. To cure this self-destructive addiction, the Bush administration has placed a major bet on the so-called "hydrogen economy," both in policy and in rhetoric. Former Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham laid out this vision, in rhapsodic language, in 2002: Hydrogen can fuel much more than cars and light trucks, our area of interest. It can also fuel ships, airplanes, and trains. It can be used to generate electricity, for heating, and as a fuel for industrial processes. We envision a future economy in which hydrogen is America's clean energy choice—flexible, affordable, safe, domestically produced, used in all sectors of the economy, and in all regions of the country....
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http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/zubrin.htm
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