I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.
I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.