The Register's March 31 article on building cars to run on fuel cells cites the fact that DaimlerChrysler AG is testing 100 fuel-cell vehicles around the world ("Automakers Announce Fuel Cell Ventures").
General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. also have models running. The article concludes with a comment that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says we may be approaching commercialization within 15 years.
We went to the moon in nine years. NASA had nothing like the Saturn V rocket, and many of the materials needed for the rocket-propulsion system weren't known in 1961.
A president sets his priorities. President Kennedy wanted to get to the moon in a decade. The Presidents Bush have now spent something like a trillion dollars trying to secure oil in the Middle East - showing their priorities.
For fuel-cell cars, the 2005 U.S. budget will spend about 1 percent of the cost of our oil war in Iraq.
-Mike Montross,
Winterset.
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