Surely you aren’t in a position to be dumping on liberals, what with Sanfraud and other C Street conservatives have been doing of late, are you?

Bet SFraud and others would be grateful to play on the bleeding heart symapthy of anyone who will listen.

NHA obviously does have a dog in this hunt. NHA represents and lobbies for the hydrogen research community, which has become another special interest group that has a vested interest in maintaining its funding and will say pretty much anything to further that aim.

don’t get me wrong–government screws up nearly everything–but a hell of a lot of useful things have been developed by some division of government.

If there is one certain fact in our lives, it is that no one can predict the future. We have no idea what will be powering our transportation needs in 30-50 years. But we can assume if we let the free market work and keep the government out of it we will be at the forefront of whatever new technology some small group of entreprenuers invent.

Had he/she bothered to do even a little bit of investigation rather than puking out the whiney, bleeding heart liberal party line, then he/she would have realized that not only has North Dakota not “bet the farm” on this technology, that they don’t even have a dog in the hunt here. The leading states are Claifornia, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Of course all of these states are following Canada, Japan, and China. If we listen to this idiot author, we will all be looking backwards 20 years from now wondering how the Japanese/Chinese ate our lunch in fuel cells the same way they did in hybrids! God, liberals are stupid!

Senator Dorgan explained himself well.

Linked to PatrickS’ site and it’s a good idea.

Impeach politicos like Sanfraud and we’ll have more money in our pockets.

I’m not behind Obama on everything, and I hope U.S. citizens have woken up and smelled the stench from the White House that’s been emitted from there for the past 8 years and will now keep present government in check.

However, based on my research, gotta support the Obama administration. Keep it in check, but support it.

First, the fact that Senator Dorgan said the technology (for vehicles) is “not near term” does NOT mean they are not practical. Hydrogen vehicles are practical. What Sen Dorgan is pointing out is that they’re not in the showrooms yet–just like several other alternative vehicles. Something near-term would be in showrooms next year. Many automakers are looking at 5 years for hydrogen vehicles: http://bit.ly/VWOdO

Second, North Dakota and Senator Dorgan are NOT trying to pick technology winners; the conclusion that they are is incorrect. In fact, Sen Dorgan is speaking up for hydrogen because the Administration tried to pick a technology winner in plug-ins (which are only part of the solution)and eliminate hydrogen funding. Sen Dorgan’s committee action to put money back in to the federal budget DIVERSIFIES the gov’t's spending and supports what many other smart people think: that we need to pursue a variety of alternative vehicle technologies.

To be more exact, here’s a quote from what he said during the Appropriations process (see especially the last sentence):
“This funding with save and continue to develop valuable scientific information that will help our nation transition to what I think is a better energy future. Abandoning research and development projects in the middle of those projects does not serve our interests well and so we’re going to continue that funding.

“I happen to believe we are moving towards an electric drive future in this nation and that is in the short and the intermediate term, and in the longer term I really believe we will be moving towards a hydrogen fuel cell future. The research for ALL OF THAT is very important.”