If petroleum powered fuel cells are the next step, the implications are enormous. I have seen the Alaska pipeline and the damaged boreal tundra, I have walked amidst oil-soaked sea birds and dead seals on the Pacific coast. The prospect of further drilling in the Arctic and more leaky pipes and tankers frightens me viscerally. I simply don't believe the promises that it can be done cleanly. Fuel cells, a proven technology dating to the 1850s, are being embraced by auto, electronic, electric and manufacturing concerns as the next big step.
Answers are imperative.
At this point I still oppose ANWR drilling. At least there, Dick Cheney's new neighbors will make him explain the mess.