# Water Powered Cars... why not?

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**Created:** [June 19, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/water-powered-cars-why-not/55290 "2008-06-19T11:23:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/water-powered-cars-why-not/55290/27 "2008-06-20T05:37:07Z")

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> [@RedGoober4Life](#):
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> So we’ve done such a terrific job with oil, we might as well not try anything else? How many years have we been at this oil thing?
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> We had that during the 80s, when a bunch of nuclear plants were proposed and then gasoline became cheap once again.
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> I took a ride in a fuel cell Equinox and was impressed by the drivetrain. What a rinky dinky car they decided to put it into, though…

Thanks for putting words in my mouth.

All I was saying was the FCX is a pretty stupid vehicle choice TODAY because we don’t have an efficient way of getting the hydrogen to power it. The choice is even worse if people make it based on the advertising of “it’s completely green and gives off nothing but clean water” while ignoring the the fact that they hyrdogen had to come from SOMEWHERE.

Lets put some money into this:  
[http://www.ne.doe.gov/nhi/nenhi.html](http://www.ne.doe.gov/nhi/nenhi.html)  
Then fuel cell cars suddenly start making sense.

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