Hydrogen, that is. You'll recall that Smirky's been talking about Hydrogen cars as the panacea for reducing dependence on oil for a long time. Well, if we are able to produce millions of safe, Hydrogen-powered cars, and develop a national infrastructure to distribute and store a flammable gas on that scale (oh, the humanity!), then that will work, but even the best guesses are that we're a couple decades away from that point. So, instead of working on other solutions which could reduce the problem in the short term, we're focusing our national agenda on pie-in-the-sky futures with no fallback.
Anyway, yesterday, some of the congresscritters decided that they needed some positive publicity, and did a photo-op at a gas station with some of GM's prototype Hydrogen cars. And when it was over, good ol' Denny left the event in one of those Hydrogen cars for the few block drive back to the capitol.
Until he stopped a block away and got out of that car and climbed into his Suburban.
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