Our Current Problem
The United States uses 20 million barrels of oil each day.
2/3 of this is used for transportation.
The US currently imports 55 % of the oil it consumes.
By 2025 this is expected to increase to 68%.
Nearly all cars and trucks run on gasoline or diesel. (www1.eere.energy.gov)
Oil Price as of October 26, 2007 $91.86 per barrel. (www.wtrg.com)
The Hydrogen Solution
Hydrogen can be obtain from domestic resources which can include fossil, nuclear and renewable resources.
Use of domestic energy resources.
Produces near-zero emissions of greenhouse gases from renewable and nuclear sources and from fossil fuel-based systems with carbon sequestration.
Hydrogen can serve additional sectors of the economy besides transportation.
When light duty Fuel Cell Vehicles reach 50 million oil imports will be reduced by 1.5 million barrels per day
When Fuel Cell vehicles reach 100 million oil imports will be reduced by 3 million barrels per day.
Emissions will be reduced since hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles use 1/3 the energy per mile traveled
State of the Union address
During the 2003 State of the Union address; President Bush “announced a $1.2 billion hydrogen fuel initiative to reverse America’s growing dependence on foreign oil by developing the technology for commercially viable hydrogen powered fuel cells to power cars and trucks†(www.whitehouse.gov). There was an additional $720 million to be spent over a five year period to assist in this development. This will aide in the production of automobile manufactures to commercialize fuel cell vehicles by the year 2020.
The goal of the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative is to develop a way to produce, store and deliver hydrogen fuel cell technologies that will allow automobile manufactures to commercialize fuel cell vehicles by the year 2020. The purpose of our report will be to analyze the timelines set by the government and determine if the timeline is misleading. We will look at view points from both sides of this ongoing debate. Our conclusion will come from the data collected and whether or not we feel that the timeline is realistic based on the information presented.Our research, as with most research is an ongoing race to find the most factual and up-to-date information on the ethical standpoint of the release of mass produced vehicles running on hydrogen powered fuel cells. So based on this fact our report is as correct and also as biased as possible letting the reader create his or her own opinion on the subject of mass produced hydrogen vehicles released by automobile manufactures.
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