It would be nice if we could get all the cars on the road and all the trucks to run on fuel cells, but to do so you must have the infrastructure in place. And before that happens it has to make sense economically for companies and entrepreneurs to spend Billions of dollars putting it in place. When I speak of infrastructure, I mean gas stations, supply chains and all the rest. It certainly would not make sense for a large multi-national corporation to go out and put in such huge infrastructures right now, as there would only be maybe one or two cars per town to stop in for their hydrogen fuel. Even building one modern gas station these days costs upwards of $750,000 and that is before the property underneath, which could easily add 2-3 million for a good convenient and busy corner one-acre lot.

One way to usher in the fuel cell driven concept is for trucking terminal to put in their own fuel cell re-fueling systems in their own terminals. Bus Companies like greyhound too. If you consider companies like UPS, Yellow Roadway, Swift Transportation, J.B. Hunt, Wal-Mart Distribution and others is makes perfect sense, as they drive to and from their own terminals in a point-to-point route. Also such systems could

be installed at police stations, United States Post Offices and county government locations.

There are already some companies working on these point-to-point strategies. There are some bus companies out West in the California Desert by Palm Springs doing this and also UPS is installing some systems in Kentucky to do the same. This will provide the backbone of the infrastructure first with jobbers and companies selling inert gasses to supply the stations of the future. The infrastructure needs to be in place before GM and Ford start pumping out 5 million cars per year with fuel cells in them at their robotic factories across the nation. Think on this in 2006.

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