NYCkayaker NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

[Geoff K.]

Wait, hang on... Now I see your point: Those ferries, they're fuel 
guzzling beasts, as are the barges, the other powerboat traffic. Let's 
ban all powered vehicles from the river. Wait a minute, the food we eat 
was delivered on those fuel-guzzling trucks, and their fields were 
tilled with fuel-guzzling farm equipment. So, I guess anyone who eats 
food from the supermarket or even the local farmers market can't use a 
human-powered vehicle on the river because those humans are ultimately 
fueled by those fuel-guzzling beasts. Oh no, the plastic boat that 
person is paddling was manufactured with fossil-fuel-based products. No 
plastic boats on the river. And no sunscreen, either; petroleum-based 
products in there...

And we won't be able to mend those sea walls when they need repair 
because the materials were manufactured in fuel-guzzling factories. Even 
that crushed stone at the breakwater has got to go, because it was 
brought in from some other place by those fuel-guzzling dumptruck beasts.

Just imagine how much fuel that cruise ship must burn every minute, even 
while its sitting in its slip. No more cruise ship commerce for the 
city. Pull the plug on that, too. And that subway train that carried the 
paddler with their folding boat from one of the outer boroughs to the 
Hudson. That's no good, because the electricity came from that 
fuel-guzzling power plant. Whoops, the laptop I'm using is powered by 
fuel-guzzling power plants, so I really shouldn't even be writing this.

Guess what: You've solved the issue. Nobody gets to use the river 
because we're all guilty as charged.

I wonder if walking on water would be considered a violation of this 
solution?

sandy sobanski wrote:
> Instead of us all getting along and accepting these things--Maybe we 
> should be actually teaching our children and society by now that this 
> huge gas guzzling stuff-such huge bursts of these kind of fuel 
> burniing sources- are just not good for the global warming scene and 
> the waters.  I'm against this cigarette boat thing-like I'm against 
> every other thing we should not be doing at this point in time-when we 
> are racing....racing--against the clock to save the planet.  Ok... so 
> they get their day of fun. How much does the planet pay for that huge 
> burst of gas every time they get together all over the country and 
> meet up.  I personally-don't want them on the planet-never mind the river.
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