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You like hydrogen fuel cells because they're full of neat tech and your
children can bask in their emissions, but there are a few small issues
like getting enough hydrogen in a car to go a reasonable distance, and
primarily where the hell to get it in the first place. Hydrogen doesn't
exist by itself, it has to be extracted and refined in order to be put to
use in anything, let alone fuel cells that would require a very specific
grade of the element to work with the efficiency you are waxing so
poetically about. As it stands right now, the most efficient ($ wise) way
to get the stuff out of whatever it's already bound up in (water) is by
using existing coal-burning plants. So then what are the net savings?

<<<<<I think if GM's manglers--uhh managers--were a little
brighter, they'd push the hydrogen car technology as
fast as they could. Hydrogen cars offer better technology
than the motor hybrids.>>>>>

Yeah, I guess, but there is a difference between kicking your feet back
and dreaming sweetly of an engine that poots water and actually
implementing something that can cut emissions drastically NOW. Hybrids
will be the most practical solution for that for a while.