Honda hopes to change all that.  Their FCX runs on clean and efficient hydrogen.  The costs for running a car on hydrogen are greatly reduced, because there’s so much hydrogen just ‘floating around’ for our use.

From a Honda Press Release:Honda Advances the Hydrogen Dream
Several months ago at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda introduced a wind cheating, earth friendly, fuel cell-powered concept called the FCX. Several weeks ago in Detroit at the NAIAS, Honda quietly announced that they would build a production vehicle based on the FCX concept. With the advancements they’ve made for this latest generation of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles, a production model will be ready within three to four years. It will probably be available only to a small group of alternative fuel loyalists and devotees, and likely only in Japan or possibly California where Honda previously introduced the FCX-V4 of which a portion of 30 examples found their way into government fleets (see new vehicle preview section of this website for January 16, 2003: 2003 Honda FCX-V4 Preview) and at least one famiy (see automotive news section of this website for July 3, 2005: Honda Tests Hydrogen-Powered FCX with Private Family for First Time), but the packaging solutions Honda has developed for hydrogen storage as well as their clever Home Energy Station, alleviating the need for widespread hydrogen refilling stations on the road, point the way around many of the obstacles, or detours, on the road to the hydrogen highway and zero-emission culture of the future.

There is a very good chance that Hydrogen-Powered cars will overtake the current gasoline cars. It might take a good 5-10 years to get rolling at first but when people see the potential this technology has, they will certainly conform to these "new and improved" fuel-efficient automobiles.

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