10-03-2011, 05:57 AM
It occurs to me, Billy, that while the oil majors might find it profitable to transform themselves into 'energy companies', other vested interests could not, and will do what they can to deter this. I am thinking in particular of EDF, still, I believe, largely owned by the French State. As you know, France is mainly nuclear, and this company has been campaigning with a deal of success to build nuclear power stations. Gordon Brown's brother popped up as Director of Public Affairs for the company, another got to work for the BBC. The Labour Government which had once been anti-nuclear power, changed course. So for EDF, that is all good; but people floating about in hydrogen cars would be a complete no-no. Just as nuclear energy is now paraded as 'clean' (tell that to the Japanese!), so I should expect to hear that hydrogen cars are, in some way, worse than any known fossil-fuel....