• AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Don’t know what to tell you without your friend providing some actual real world numbers. Even the PRO hydrogen sites tend to note the high costs and are pushing for more cheap fossil fuel based natural gas reforming to make more of it cheaper (not green).

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I just know he liked it and gasoline costs were higher back then when we were talking about it. If memory serves that was 2016-2017, somewhere in the beforetimes. Hydrogen costs very well could have increased (to the consumer, in general, I don’t know that market at all) since then. He did like bragging that he paid less to fuel it up than I did for my Nissan, but it wasn’t free. Our local hydrogen station is right next to the government employee fuel depot so there might have been some subsidy? I’ll have to ask next time we get lunch.

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          1 year ago

          There have been and still are several subsidies from what I have read… I don’t live anywhere close to a station it is fairly limited to a hand full of stations.