[PUP] $100 per barrel oil

[Kevin Kearney]

We as a consumptive society use more than is necessary, 3000 plus square foot homes, 5000 pound automobiles, second homes, second cars a reality check is due. We are at war to feed our "needs"-There is no social shame associated with fuelish behaviors. 
   
  With our American way of promoting a "free market economy" the real cost on cruising under power will be the lost value in fuelish yachts being operated fuelishly-they were wrong when they were concieved, often wrong in operation and will be difficult to sell with fuel costs going where they are bound to go.
   
  Relative to boat design most builders know their market (free market) and buyers given the choice between 50 or 300 Horsepower on a 20 ton trawler yacht-make the traditional more is better route, the ethic of less is best, simplify-simplify-is not within most of us.
   
  These lessons are being ignored in our automobile industry, we could be making efficient turbocharged/intercooled sub 1000cc 4 passanger cars in diesel or gas that exceed 50mpg-do 0-60 in sub 10 seconds and have speeds exceeding 100mph but instead the technology and research is directed towards the 600HP/200mph feel good car.
   
  In 1951 0-60 in a Jag XK120 was 10 seconds--in 1966 VWs were pokey at 20 seconds, today sub 3 seconds is the standard and anything that takes more than 8 seconds is "dangerously slow"-That's what we are being marketed and thats what we buy.
   
  So leave a "clean wake", and be moderate in your speeds, do some reengineering when you repower in terms of HP needed and the costs of Voyaging Under Power will be modest and your resale will be better.
   
  
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