[fabsroman]

Skeet,

Honda already has a fuel cell vehicle that it is selling to fleet owners. The problem with any alternative fuel vehicle right now is the availability of the alternative fuel. They have a car out that runs on natural gas, but you have to install a special fueling station in your house for it. The range on it is about 250 miles, which isn't bad. However, where are additional fueling stations other than your house? Same thing goes for ethanol. I have yet to pull into a gas station that sells the stuff. Even if I bought an alternative fuel vehicle, I would have no idea where to get the fuel. About the only place that ethanol is available in my area is the county vehicle fleet site. Kind of pathetic if you ask me. I'm guessing that the big oil companies don't want their dealers to install ethanol pumps in their stations because it would compete with oil. So, these ethanol producers are going to need to start their own ethanol fueling stations, or they are going to have to encourage the independent stations to install them.

By the way, Ford has a fuel cell vehicle scheduled to be launched in 2012. I'm hoping that our cars will last that long and that the technology will be sound when it gets released.