The Environmental Cost of Economic Stupidity

In an article today on how it will take a long time to deploy a network of fueling stations for hydrogen cars--if it ever happens at all--the New York Times reports the National Research Council's estimate of $200 billion as the cost of such a deployment.

To put it another way, for less than a third of the estimated cost of the bailout of Wall Street's richest, the entire country could enjoy the economic benefits of an emission-free fuel and the political benefits of not being dependent on the Arabs and the Russians for the gasoline we need to get to the supermarket, school, work, etc.