NYCkayaker Ferries/Barges vs Cigarette boats

Sat Jun 16 17:49:49 EDT 2007

Geoff Ks  post was way off base.  Ferries, along with subways and other forms of mass transportation, reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants that  private vehicles would generate  Barges, replace transportation by a whole fleet of trucks, again reducing greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions. Furthermore, transportation, farming etc are a necessary part of modern life, while cigarette boats are an unnecessary cause of pollution, (both noise and air) and serve only to inflate the already giant egos of their  owners. While kayak manufacturing does contribute to pollution, at least kayaks and canoes are  environmentally friendly in use. We need to make choices in life that have the least negative impact on our environment. 

  Tom

          Date:  Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:28:29 -0400    To:  nyckayaker at rockandwater.net    From:  "Geoff K." <geoffk99 at gmail.com>     Subject:   Re: NYCkayaker NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25     #message { overflow:auto; visibility:hidden }       YAHOO.Shortcuts.hasSensitiveText = true; YAHOO.Shortcuts.doUlt = false; YAHOO.Shortcuts.location = "us"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.lang = "us"; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_id = 32; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_type = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_title = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_publish_date = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_author = ""; YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet = { lw_1182030204_0: { text: '  ', startchar: 2842, endchar: 2845, start: 2842, end: 2845, weight: 1, type: ['shortcuts:/us/instance/identifier/hyperlink/http'] , metaData: { linkHref: "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7", linkProtocol: "http", linkRel: "nofollow", linkTarget: "_blank" } } };  YAHOO.Shortcuts.overlaySpaceId =
 "97546169";  YAHOO.Shortcuts.hostSpaceId = "97546168";     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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