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In 2001 Sam tired a home-produced hydrogen kit for his 2-year-old Lincoln to use both gas and hydrogen together. The improved gas milage was remarkable, but the hydrogen was very dry burning. His engine needed rebuilding after only one year. That was 8 years ago. Maybe the technology is better today for hydrogen and can offer improved fuel economy and better performance.

A difficult situation for your automobile is the pitting of the metal caused by high motor accelerations during idling when using hydrogen fuel. If the high concentration of hydrogen increases too much, the stationary ring will get a flaking failure. The industry is looking into different ways to get oil into the top end engine to help elevate this drawback to using hydrogen fuel.

There is also the situation of Ethanol stress corrosion - cracking and even biofuels corrosion. The movement to find cheap alternative fuels instead of relying on the foreign oil companies is the new American dream.

Some American car manufacturers are again looking into producing the electric car because of public demand. There is a movie called "Who Killed The Electric Car" that is worth seeing and tells the story of a past effort to test electric and the electric car passed the test. Ford is listening and is producing the Edge. The Ford Edge will have a drivable fuel cell hybred electric plug-in.

A number of worldwide automakers are in the hunt for a method to ecologically improve automobile fuel economy while still meeting today's strict emissions requirements. Will the oil cartel allow the politicians to support the people's wishes in finding a local solution to the high oil and gasoline prices? Who really controls the research and direction of fuel saving devices?

Hydrogen-boosted gas engine: One more way to boost fuel economy is to add hydrogen to the fuel/air mixture in a typical gasoline engine. The problem is that hydrogen isn't readily available at your local filling station, selling a hydrogen-boosted gas engine hasn't been on any vehicle-makers' preferred. We hope the people get educated about alternative fuels and demand the lawmakers support this new industry.

Hydrogen is in many ways is the perfect fuel. It can be used in combustion engines and produces only water as a by-product. But for hydrogen-powered vehicles, the gas tank is a big limiting factor. The hydrogen gas is difficult to store. Weight for weight, hydrogen is three times as energy dense as petrol. When liquefied hydrogen contains just a quarter of the energy as the same volume of petrol, and that involves high pressures, or super cooling to keep it in state. The latest prototype vehicles can travel only up to 450 kilometres (280 miles) or so on a full tank.