/u/gopher65 explains how the transition from gas to electric cars will bring the whole oil infrastructure come crashing down in only a few years

Lots of misinformation in your post. None of those safety hazards are any more dangerous than the safety hazards associated with storing gasoline.

Gasoline is flammable. It has about the same flame temperature as hydrogen.

Hydrogen certainly doesn't burn clear.

Hopefully you notice something very different about that explosion compared to how gasoline burns. Gasoline burns slowly hydrogen burns very quickly. It'd only take a simple design to make a hydrogen tank rupture significantly safer than a gasoline tank rupture. The biggest reason is hydrogen is less dense than atmosphere, while gasoline is more dense. Gasoline stays under the flame while hydrogen goes up and away. Hydrogen won't keep burning like gasoline does.

Liquid storage of hydrogen would require specialized containment and distribution that the average person probably couldn't be trusted with, but they really shouldn't be trusted with gasoline either. The safety risks associated with cold storage are significantly less than the safety risks of flammable storage.

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