Next up, H2 Fuel.
Paul Ritchie posted in News on March 25th, 2006
I said on Thursday that the ethanol industry, if it’s going to have a viable long term future, had better move very fast. Indeed, fast enough to get the oil industry spreading nasty rumors through the press because the next wave of fuels is already upon us - hydrogen.
Since I enjoy making predictions, and I enjoy watching them unfold in more or less the way I predict, I’m going to predict there will be two camps embracing the future of alternative fuels: The ethanolers (whom will probably be affectionately known as the auto-alcoholics) and the hydrogen fuel users.
Ethanol has a head start and hydrogen presents certain logistical and manufacturing problems which may see several accidents of the LPG ilk before government regulators step in to impose all sorts of weird conditions on suppliers of hydrogen fuel and thereby drive the price up. Those factors will weigh fairly heavily in favor of the ethanol industry.
I also mentioned last week that BMW (Germany) are going to go into production of high end hydrogen fueled vehicles. The information I’m gathering is rather fruity and deserves a whole day’s entry. And local auto news has been scarce on the ground this week - except I heard a nasty story about a local Jiffy Lube outlet and I’m keen to hear the outcome of the disagreement.
The Consumer Affairs website has this to say about them:
“Jiffy Lube is the McDonald’s of the automotive service business. It has standardized, cleaned up and branded the hum-drum routine oil change, making it something that’s now accomplished in a few minutes in relatively pleasant surroundings.
Unfortunately, things don’t always turn out as well as one hopes, as the many sad tales in this section demonstrate. “ Click here for full details.
I wonder, did the photographer whose services I am still hoping to procure get offered fries with his service?
Oh P.S. Click the link! There’s a Google Adsense ad for Jiffy Lube under this damning little article. How perfectly ironic!
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