Originally Posted by eonsx311
fat chance. i read somthing on the topic the other day. for instance, to produce hydrogen that could be used in hydrogen powered vehicles it takes a tremendous ammount of energy (electricity) either from nuke power or fossil fuels to extract isolate hydrogen. so while they cars arent polluting, the process to create the hydrogen at best is nuclear power. there are scientists developing processes that use sunlight to extract the hydrogen but it is decades in the future before it is efficent. to put it best. the best we are gonna do for another 40 or 50 years are hybrid vehicles or very fuel efficent gasoline engines. that is, ofcourse, there is some HUGE technological break thru. i doubt the bill funds alternate energy that much if at all.
I heard about the ethanol thing, but I was wondering if this bill was going to put any subsidization towards biodiesel. I sure as hell was hoping so, but I don't think it's going to happen. As far as a cost-effective, clean, renewable alternative fuel, bio-d is by far the best option we have.