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Sirs: Your proposed engine and boat upgrades for sport fishing
boats are merely a means to kill the industry. These small time,
family owned commercial boats cannot be upgraded with bigger tier 4
engines, which do not currently exist. The wooden and fiberglass
boats will catch on fire due to the heat generated by tier 4
engines. Your proposed solution, buying new and bigger boats, is
not economically feasible. Two of your other proposals are pure pie
in the sky nonsense, battery power or hydrogen. They don't exist
and are unsuitable for boating. Current mid sized boats don't even
use propane. It is too risky and hydrogen will be worse. Lithium
ion batteries have the same problem. If they leak, they burn in air
and in water. You can't put out a lithium ion battery fire. Don't
you remember the fire on the Conception dive boat? What is wrong
with you people?