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Study says U.S. funding would speed up shift
By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers
Published on Monday, Jul 21, 2008
WASHINGTON: As the cost of filling up skyrockets, a government-backed study says America could nearly eliminate its need for gasoline for cars, pickup trucks and SUVs by 2050 if the government helps build a market for hydrogen fuel cells and other technologies.
The study by the National Research Council of the National Academies, the government's adviser on science, medicine and engineering, looked mainly at the future of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
It concluded that with about $55 billion in government support in the next 15 years, hydrogen vehicles could be competitive with gasoline-powered ones by 2023 and common on the roads by 2050.
Congress asked the advisory body to look at prospects for hydrogen and alternatives that could have the largest impact by 2020. The group's findings are a best-case look at low-carbon fuel options at a time when there is a push for expanded searches for domestic oil.
Light-duty vehicles use 44 percent of the oil used in the United States and emit more than 20 percent of the carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas. The report said hydrogen alone could eliminate more than 60 percent of this oil use and carbon by 2050. If the nation used hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels as well, by the same year, carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks could be cut to less than 20 percent of current levels.
''There needs to be durable, substantial and sustainable government help for this to happen, just like there is for ethanol,'' said Michael P. Ramage, a retired executive vice president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
WASHINGTON: As the cost of filling up skyrockets, a government-backed study says America could nearly eliminate its need for gasoline for cars, pickup trucks and SUVs by 2050 if the government helps build a market for hydrogen fuel cells and other technologies.
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