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Here’s an interesting hypocrisy-exposer as well... How many senators running for president claim to want to reduce so-called global warming, or at least our dependence on oil from the Middle East? But have you noticed how they’re nevertheless so lacking in vision (or integrity, amidst the petro dollars that they seek) that they still refuse to sponsor the Energy Department’s potential “H Prize” for hydrogen fuel breakthroughs?

One can learn more about the “H Prize” at:

http://thomas.loc.gov , S.365

In the House, H.R.632 already has several dozen co-sponsors AND ACTUALLY PASSED LAST YEAR...only to languish due to Senate inaction including that of Senators McCain, Obama, Kerry(!) and Hillary Clinton.

For some reasonably recent articles on the H Prize:

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage6788.html

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/24/41211.aspx

&

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/22/38371.aspx

EXCERPT: “[p]rizes can provide an extra push, particularly for innovators who may be flying under the big automakers’ radar.”

For an additional analysis of the prizes paradigm:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

And for information about the only current or potential presidential candidate who aggressively backs government-sponsored prizes:

http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=3055

[Shuttle Shucker]

Newt said he’d be more likely to run for president if other candidates don’t adequately embrace ideas that he considers important. Have any OTHER candidates paid much if any attention to the competitive prizes issue, especially the lack of them in government procurement even as our national debt is at an all-time high:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm ?