Sen. Hirono UNdecided on Keystone XL Pipeline

[Wao nahele kane]

This reminds me of the lava diversion discussion. The same set of scenarios apply here. Common sense would say that we need to switch to hydrogen gas that can be derived directly from water and goes back to being water after use. No exploration costs with the exception of energy source for initial dissociation, geothermal can handle that. All renewable resources. This just makes sense as does saving improvements from lava inundation.

Unfortunately neither of these will be adopted due to the profits involved. The pipeline will be built and hydrogen gas will not replace petroleum based fuels anytime soon. Yes hydrogen is by far cheaper but there's no big profits involved.

So some may still not recognise the similarity.

In the big picture, only through losses are derived financial profits.
That is the current philosophy of our system.