Hydrogen Powered Cars: The Solution to our Problems.....

I was looking for some history on gas prices, to see where we've gone in the last several years. I came across this site, zfacts.com, which put some things into a very interesting perspective for me.

I have for along thought that America's dependency on foreign oil is quite ridiculous. I think that commercial, international trade between countries is good, and that exchange, for economic purposes is a good thing. It helps create efficiencies. My only issue, however, is that I'm not sure that all the money we pay goes to all the right places. So, Hydrogen has long appealed to me as the answer to our oil woes. It's non-polluting! This is the most important part about using hydrogen fuel in cars. Well, there is a huge caveat to using hydrogen power for automobiles. Most people don't realize that it actually takes fossil fuels (petroleum) to create hydrogen power.

According to the same site, http://zfacts.com/p/35.html, it actually takes '1.15 units of fossil energy energy to create just one unit of hydrogen energy.' This is so profounding! So what good then, is making Hydrogen fuels? Well, I suppose just that they don't pollute.

Here is my thinking... even though the above ratio seems inefficient, maybe a car can go further on 1 unit of Hydrogen energy than 1.15 units of fossil fuel. Also, I imagine that as time progresses this ratio will improve as research widens and as Hydrogen producing methods become more efficient.

For a more in depth article about the site I mentioned above, check out http://zfacts.com/p/285.html.