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113 gallons per hour...
HK wrote:
Jim wrote: "HK" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: "HK" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... You just don't seem to get it. It isn't a matter of affording it. It is a matter of wasting huge amounts of dwindling resources for "fun." Harry, you should then consider giving up your airplane trips to Hawaii, Costa Rica or any other non-essential trips. A Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel every second. Eisboch There's a bit of a difference when 300 people are on a common carrier air transport and four guys are out on a gas hog sportfish. Just for information, I just tried searching for a breakdown of fuel usage in the US, comparing gallons used in automobiles and gallons used for recreational boating. I haven't found the answer yet, but obviously the auto number will be much higher. I *did* find one interesting statistic for New Jersey. It is an old data (1997) but was still revealing. In that year a total of 30 million gallons of fuel was used for recreational boating. 20 million gallons of that was in outboard engine powered boats. So, at least in 1997, the big boats weren't using the most fuel. Eisboch That's still not the point. It's the matter of one guy using too much of a dwindling natural resource. There's no possible justification for burning 50 to 100 gallons of fuel an hour for kicks. How many GPH of fuel burn is justifiable, by HK standards, for "just for kicks" boat useage? And please let us know how you arrived at your conclusion. Less than 40 gph at cruise, with that number diminishing every couple of years, so that eventually we end up with smaller boats burning a lot less fuel or large boats with smaller engines. How did you come up with the 40 gph number? |
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