The main reason the oil companies will have to be involved is the expense involved in creating a network of filling stations.
They already have the network. All they will need is to convert.
As for producing hydrogen from fossil fuels... granted it is a nasty way of creating a cleaner fuel. However, the main benefit is that while there will still be emissions the emissions will be in concentrated areas rather than spewing all over the place as we get with internal combustion engine emmisions.
Ideally we start out this way and move to wind, solar and geothermal as they become more readily available. The trick is to make sure that they do become readily available which requires investment in these alternative methods of producing power.
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