I've decided to concentrate my research paper on some aspect of hydrogen filling stations, and ultimately their connection to the reason we can't use hydrogen cars tomorrow. But I'm not sure where to go with just the filling stations..
I've come up with a few ideas and want to see what you think.
The Social effects of different hydrogen distribution plans. In other words, what would have to be done in order to implement certain plans... new pipe lines, completely new stations, etc., and how hard it would be to make these changes in order to sustain hydrogen cars.
Reasons we can't develop hydrogen stations... Whether oil companies are so powerful and have so much lobbying interests in Congress and throughout the world that their opposition to alternative fuels is truly keeping hydrogen stations out of America on a wide scale. ...or is it the U.S. Government that doesn't want hydrogen stations? They don't want to spend the money now to create new infrastructure? and risk losing Big Oil support in Washington? (That's good, and controversial, but might be hard to prove.)
I thought of taking the angle that maybe Americans just don't want hydrogen stations..but I think it's safe to say all Americans are ready for an alternative fuels and wouldn't stick up for Big Oil.
I think its actually more likely that if someone tried to bring up creating Hydrogen filling stations as a method of "sticking it" to Big Oil, most Americans would jump on the bandwagon.
Americans seem to be riled up about Big Oil and the ridiculous profits they've been making, and I think its possible that if someone ran a platform that they were going to try to go against Big Oil by trying all of these alternative energies, they could gain mass voter support without the amount of money they would gain from lobbying Big Oil.
Its a theory anyway...
I've got a question though:
Why doesn't an Oil company completely buy into alternative fuels and use some of the ridiculous profits to secure their dominance in the future? Do they see some kind of problem with Hydrogen fuel that they don't want to get ahead of the game that the rest of the public doesn't see? You'd think that if Hydrogen was at all plausible the Oil companies would immediately find some way to capitalize.
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