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United States Launches U.S.
Ends Car Plan on Gas Efficiency; New York Times New
York TimesJanuary 9, 2002 The
Bush administration is walking away from a $1.5 billion eight- year government-subsidized
project to develop high-mileage gasoline- fueled vehicles. Instead it is
throwing its support behind a plan that the Energy Department and the auto
industry have devised to develop hydrogen-based fuel cells to power the cars
of the future, administration and industry officials said yesterday. The new
effort, to be announced in Detroit today by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham,
aims at the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine. Fuel
cells use stored hydrogen and oxygen from the air to create electricity, and
the only emission from engines they power is water vapor. "The
eventual goal of this research are technologies that aim to solve many of the
problems associated with our nation's reliance on petroleum to power our cars
and trucks." U.S.
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
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