With the advent of hydrogen vehicles and plug-in vehicles, won’t that reduce our need for foreign oil?
The advent of new vehicle technologies will have a significant impact on the supply of and demand for petroleum products. While the auto manufacturers deserve considerable credit for their efforts to develop alternatives to the gasoline powered engine, we are still many years away from a reliable and mass-produced product for American consumers. Increased research is needed in batteries for conventional hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles and in various types of fuel cells. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are not a short-term solution, but rather a long-term option requiring fundamental science and engineering breakthroughs in several areas before they reliably meet our daily transportation requirements.
