"The Bush administration is walking away from a $1.5 billion eight- year government-subsidized project to develop high-mileage gasoline- fueled vehicles. Instead it is throwing its support behind a plan that the Energy Department and the auto industry have devised to develop hydrogen-based fuel cells to power the cars of the future, administration and industry officials said yesterday. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/bu...odaysheadlines
Its obvious that our reliance on foreign oil is a problem, however is this realistic or just avoidance behavior.