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Old Feb 23rd, 2004, 11:01 PM       
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He stated that fuel cell vehicles would never amount to significant market share. Hydrogen was ruled out as a solution because of intensive costs of production, inherent energy inefficiencies, lack of infrastructure, and practical difficulties such as the extreme cost and difficulty of storage.
Which is exactly what can be said of the situation with gasoline a century ago when automobiles were just making their debut. The change was made, though, because cars were better than buggies.

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