Schwarzenegger's Green Hummer
Schwarzenegger's election pledge to create a 'Green Hummer' has touched off a 'Hummerground' -- a real-world race to build the best and cleanest Hummer.
"...With much Earth Day fanfare, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order officially paving the way for his Hydrogen Highways program. 'This looks kind of like a movie set here, right?' the celebrity governor joked, after climbing out of a hydrogen-powered Toyota Highlander and fueling it at a new, experimental pump at the University of California-Davis... It's highly debatable, though, whether Schwarzenegger's Green Hummer plan would actually serve the larger environmental good. Any clean-energy stickler will tell you that the idea of putting a hydrogen-powered engine into the biggest, heaviest consumer SUV on Earth -- as opposed to a lightweight vehicle that requires far less horsepower -- is both counterintuitive and astronomically expensive."
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