Anything else is an interim solution. We all share the responsibility for carrying out this project, for the assumption of responsibility is part of the dignity of human beings.
Trouble is, the future never quite seems to arrive.
Although fuel cells helped the Apollo astronauts make it to the moon, they have never made much of an impact on Earth. In a bid to keep up with ever tighter air pollution standards, automakers are pushing hard to introduce fuel cells to mundane family sedans and pickup trucks. Virtually every major car company is now working on the technology. Early demonstration vehicles running on hydrogen and methanol are already on the road. And DaimlerChrysler is so confident the partnership will like one of the early designs that it has promised to roll out 40,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2004.