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The market may have no choice but to go along. Don't laugh but I think its more feasible than the battery powered electric cars no one wants to buy because of their limitations and the fact you still have to take several hours in the garage to juice up the car before you can take it out for a spin. And the other factor that held up electric cars is the fact you can't really take long road trips with 'em. Personally this part of the speech went a long way to rebutting the enviro wackos and anti-war kooks on the Left who insist President Bush's sole motive for going to war with Iraq is for oil. Now that the President has proposed hydrogen fuel cell technology for cars, that's made the opposition look ridiculous and made the President look environmentally responsible.

The market may have no choice but to go along.

And that's the problem. We don't know what the best technology will be ten years from now. Hybrid vehicles seem to have some market acceptance already. Combustion engines are getting cleaner. Batteries are getting better. I've read stories about safe nuclear batteries. The bottom line is president Bush is pro-government and anti-market. Buying votes is difficult when the market is allowed to work.

BTW, I did like the Iraq part of his speech.

Kennedy's primary motovation for the space program was to create an infant market for what are now computer chips. While going to the moon was a big deal, it pales in comparison with what we are now doing with silicon waffers.