Federal Highway System

<Tab/>Bush's decision to use that speech to ask for $1.2 billion in federal funds to support fuel-cell and hydrogen research was a boost for the emerging technology, which converts hydrogen into electric current while releasing steam as a byproduct. A few days later, Bush said he wants to see that the first car driven by "a child born today" is powered by hydrogen and pollution free. By investing federal dollars into …

…the 1970s spent billions and got nowhere. "If you look at the Internet, it was originally built by the government for linking universities," McCormick said, in rebuttal. "The federal highway system and the railroad also are examples of projects that couldn't have succeeded without the government." Worth mentioning is the rising price of oil. Undoubtedly a dramatic, prolonged increase in price would do more than tax dollars to make the president's spending proposal seem prophetic.