1. Oil first has to be found (often in stormy seas and sandy deserts), extracted (by oilrigs from thousands of feet below the surface with the risk of fires and oil-spills), and transported (often halfway around the world, risking pollution or pirate assaults) before refineries can start transforming crude oil to various fuels. Tremendous costs are incurred regarding money, effort, time, dangers, and transport. The disasters caused by the Exxon Valdez and deep sea Horizon speak for themselves. The sources of hydrogen (wind, water, and sun) are free, inexhaustible, and widely available. Though the technology to transform renewable energy to electricity and hydrogen is not free, it costs far less over thirty years than the entire process to bring crude from underground to gasoline.

2. Apart from the hazards to bring crude oil to the refineries, these facilities are few and far between and can easily be damaged by natural or man-made disasters. When that happens, as we witness with several hurricanes per year, the price of gasoline immediately soars. Electricity from renewable sources is delivered to the national grid and can be tapped anywhere by on-site hydrogen-producing units. Because the wind-turbines, solar-panels, hydro-electric plants, and on-site hydrogen units are multiple and widely scattered, one disaster will not have a devastating effect on the entire system. Thus hydrogen prices will not soar as a result of local disasters.

3. When fossil fuels are used they produce many types of harmful gases in large quantities, such as carbon- and sulfur-dioxides. Amongst others, these gases cause global warming, smog, health problems, acid rain, and other forms of ground, water, and air pollution. When hydrogen is used in combustion engines and fuel-cells water and heat are the main byproducts. That makes hydrogen the ideal fuel.

Why the world remains addicted to fossil fuels while a far better alternative is available is incomprehensible and unacceptable.

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