American made hydrogen will provide the jobs Americans need and the confidence to buy American made cars and trucks that clean the air and last longer. It will inspire our government to print currency to buy hydrogen from farmers and other entrepreneurs and store it in depleted oil and natural gas formations and then resell it to distribution and retail entrepreneurs at a margin that supplies enough income to allow income taxes to be abolished.

But first, let me tell you how we got to this conclusion ….

About a month ago, I called my Dad and told him my latest idea about buying an auto dealership that had unexpectedly closed their doors. The dealership was big and they were closing thirteen car dealerships across the nation due to "adverse economic conditions, high gasoline prices and their traditional product mix.”

I told him that the dealership would be perfect. We could convert cars to run on hydrogen and sell hydrogen fuel at dealership stations right off the freeways.

To my surprise, I actually heard my Dad laugh out loud at my idea. It was one of those …. good to hear your idea laughs, but I wish he would have said Right On. Now, I’ve been telling him ideas on how to fund the Solar Hydrogen Economy since I was in third grade and I’ve never heard him outright laugh at one of them. He is usually much more polite. But I suppose I’m due, because I’ve been known to laugh at his ideas.

Take the time he answered my question about why the Big Three automakers hadn’t accepted his proposals to manufacture cars that use hydrogen. His answer was, “Well, we can buy their stocks and go to our board meeting and convince them that converting to hydrogen is what they should do. And if they resist we will ask other stock holders to give us proxies to vote out the board and bring in one that will earn more profits by making cars that can interchangeably use renewable hydrogen, methane, fuel alcohols, or conventional fossil fuel.”

I nervously laughed out loud at the idea, because we don’t have enough money to buy stock and hire the public relations firms to convince other stock holders to change management. And that’s probably the reason why my Dad traded me a laugh at the notion of buying a bunch of auto dealerships.

“Besides,” my Dad went on to say, “You would probably have to become a qualified owner/dealer-operator of a Chevrolet “franchise" by applying to General Motors and that would take a lot of money.”

“Well, why would that be so bad?” I asked naively. “Isn’t that the same thing as getting proxies to elect a new board? Wouldn’t we be able to tell them that we would like to sell hydrogen cars?”

And this, my friends, led me to think about how Chevrolet, Ford, and GM can get out of financial trouble. Instead of asking for bailout money or going bankrupt, they should be asking for Green money ….to build green dealerships that would convert already sold vehicles to run on hydrogen at their dealerships by their qualified mechanics.

And when we take our cars into the green dealerships to be converted to run on hydrogen, they can fix all of our other issues that might be wrong with the car, and if the customer doesn’t have the money, they can finance the conversion, perhaps even get a tax write off. Or perhaps be convinced to buy a brand new hydrogen car!

It’s time to save our auto makers and dealerships by offering what the public wants. New and used vehicles that clean the air by using American made hydrogen and other clean renewable fuels. The auto industry doesn't need a bailout, they need help building the cars of the future!

Dad says the best thing Americans can do to get started is to lease a car that can use hydrogen interchangeably with the original fuel as suggested by the American Hydrogen Association request for citizen action to Help Achieve American Energy Independence. And that's what I'm trying to do ... laugh all you want!