That is ridiculous, the small reduction in funding for long term fuel cell development will not affect the GM Equinox program. However, GM going bankrupt WILL.

Honda and others have made good incremental advancements in fuel cells. It may still be a form of GM that emerges and competes in that market. One policy change that was long overdue does not end the world as we know it.

Why not end this road show in Victoria, BC? They're far more hospitable and full of gaseous fun there. And you get a more picturesque background of the Olympic mountains.

Synthetic hydrocarbon fuels made from captured CO2 and water with nuclear energy are the answer to automotive fuels with no net CO2 release. Ordinary electricity can do this more cheaply than $150 oil. NOX can be controlled and loss of efficiency for lower NOX is of less concern. Series hybrids with small free piston Stirling engines release little NOX. Plug in hybrids are a more efficient use of renewable energy instead of converting it into hydrogen.

Fuel cells for cars or most other purposes have and will have too high of a cost, and storing and providing hydrogen for and in cars will always have a high cost. None would exist except for massive direct subsidies.

Very high compression engines can have efficiencies equal to those of many operating fuel cells. Instead of destroying NOX produced by such stationary engines it should be captured and used as a source of nitrogen for plant growth. The experimental engine of NOAX could operate in diesel, compression ignition, mode alone on natural gas or even hydrogen. Some diesel engines operating in Australia run on natural gas with only one percent of diesel ignition fuel from a special injector, but a standard injector can be turned on instantly for full diesel operation. Adding a steam boiler and turbine would give such engines even more efficiency. The turbine could be coupled directly to the engine shaft through gears so no additional generator is needed. The steam would be totally recycled. UTC makes such systems with extra generators and recycled hydrocarbon fluids.

The early version of such a system used pistons and was called the Still system. The single Kitson-Still locomotive built had no electric generators or motors and used one/eighth the fuel of a steam locomotive for the same work, but it had the starting traction of a steam locomotive. Such locomotives could save on energy on our railroads today because there was no electrical loss.

Combined-heat-power-cooling is the fastest and most effective way, per dollars spent, to reduce CO2 release. Honda, Capstone and UTC seem to be volume leaders in this field. Every commercial building in California, especially, but also elsewhere should be required to have such units. A HONDA unit could supply power to charge a PHEV and heat a house with little extra fuel cost over just heating the house. The extra capital required to install such units can be repaid in a few years at most and sometimes in a few months with subsisdies and a large existing need for heat. No ordinary furnace or boiler should be allowed to be sold in the future.

Compressed natural gas is a good fuel, and people could make their own natural gas in the back yard from food wastes or even potatoes or flour or sugar bought new from the store. How about corn natural gas made at home?

In India some people make enough gas to cook supper with the breakfast food wastes and other collected rotten fruits and vegetables. ..HG..

At least there seems to be a consensus on the conversion to CCHP. Yes. Now, to build several escalating scale pilot programs. A commercial building. An industrial park. A small home. A larger home. A neighborhood. CCHP will put us on a path to energy independence. A path both greens and conservatives can agree on.