Btw I found a blog post from July 7th , the article about hydrogen appeared in the July 6th edition of the Portland Press Herald.
http://tchgetting2zero.blogspot.com/2008/07/hydrogen-powered-car-advocates.html
@chris: thanks for the comments. clean-burning hydrogen sounds like a plan, but that's going to take a while and people will have to be dragged kicking-and-screaming to make that change. on the other hand, if gas prices keep climbing this quickly, we all may run out of options. my next planned trip to palo alto will be in about one month... i'll make sure i take another camphone picture of that Shell price menu. my guess is: the prices will be higher. Question is: how much.
'Know what you're saying, it will take time, fact is this technology has been with us well over a decade, yet we get motivated by the economics not the environmental. Now it's "neck & neck" the price per unit and the environmental "soundness & sweetness" .
Bet it's closer to the per unit price for Hydrogen and the oddity is that fuel will likely drop in price as generation facilities
become more prevalent/common place as this long transition takes place away from fossil fuel as the primary mode to motor.
That's just plain nasty,,
Well we found out that locally we have a "Hydrogen" service station, "Solar powered" of course, that is going in , in neighboring South Portland, Maine. btw; the per gallon price will be about $6.00/gal 'til it gets more widespread and production & use is kicked up . the exhaust is H2O ,,,
Some things make sense certainly a major transition becomes so much more sensible.
Between this image and the one before;
That's quite the jump ,
& were all feeling it.