Ben Stein/NY Times mistake

Ben Stein writes a column called "Everybody's Business" in the business section of the Sunday New York Times. It's quite a good column and I enjoy reading it.

It wasn't the main point of his article, but he made a bit of an oopsie concerning hybrids today (Oct. 9, 2005). He wrote:

"Americans are moving at a measured pace fro gasoline-powered cars and trucks to hybrids. But the percentage of hybrids is still tiny - and they get hydrogen and electricity from plants fired by coal, oil and natural gas, by the way, which is like cutting off a blanket at one end and sewing it on at the other to make it longer."

I sent him a little message on the difference between hybrids on the one hand, and hydrogen-powered cars (where he's on-target, since hydrogen fuels are an energy "carrier" rather than an energy "source") on the other.