Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.
My family, we're all WASPs.
Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.