*claps and cheers*
Nicely done sir.

I reckon a rabid contingent of the eco-mentalist brigade got their hessian knickers in a knot.

/off topic

Electric and hybrid cars in general are more costly and toxic to produce than their fully internal combustion counterparts.

We've gotten it wrong again. A myth that electric cars are greener is being perpetuated by people who should know better.

The most promising technological avenue is that of a hydrogen fuel cell car, however it still takes three times as much energy to separate hydrogen from oxygen as is obtained from combining hydrogen and oxygen together. That means that any hydrogen fuel industry is going to require huge amounts of energy to produce the stuff.

All we're going to do is make power stations burn more fossil fuels to provide enough energy for hydrogen extraction instead of burning the fossil fuel in your car's engine.

It won't be feasible until we have commercially viable fusion reactors which won't happen for 75 years at the earliest.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 23 Dec 2008, 10:45, Reply)