Obama: Forget the hydrogen highway

A Honda fuel cell vehicle

The Obama administration will shift the government's funding from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to plug-in vehicles.

"We want diversity, but we also want critical mass. If we're going to address these problems (of dependence on foreign oil), we eventually have to build something," said Steven Chalk, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency of and Renewable Energy, adding the government has to "pick some winners so to speak and go with our best shot."

Ethanol: Proof that Obama is a pork-loving politician pretending to be different?

Obama rips automakers, yet protects corn-based ethanol

Barack Obama loves corn-based ethanol, and the Presidential candidate is pushing a significant increase in ethanol production. And what's not to love about corn-based ethanol?

Corn-based ethanol received some $8 billion dollars worth of subsidies in 2006 - a politician's pork barrel wet dream.

But it's helping the planet, right? (Finish)