Hmmm, articulate, well thought out, reasonable reasoning....are you SURE you own a jetski? Just kidding. I have elected to eject every one of the jetski messages except yours and I'm glad you wrote it. I actually agree with you too. Jet skis are obnoxious. Many jet skiers are not obnoxious. I personally hate the noise of these especially when I'm paddling but I hate pinko communism and random government control even more. If your going to ban motors, ban them across the board (be a fair communist at least). No internal combustion engines...period. Take it a step further and eliminate motor homes and those goofy 4 wheel ATV things that are the land equal of a jetski. I'm all for it! But, it had better be fair. Now my view of reality. This is America and lobbiests will never allow this to happen (hehehe). The National Marine Manufacturers Association and the affiliated hooha groups wield a mighty stick. If you want to change something (like the problem), change the noise levels that these things are allowed to spew. Then make it a federal crime to alter the silencing systems. Can't be done? Look at the auto industry. In 1975 all cars were required to have cat converters in the exhaust and meet noise restrictions too. It is a federal crime to change that and people actually get banged for altering pollution controls. There are processes in many states for checking them as well. I still drive my 500 horsepower, open pipe, '60's street machine (legal when built) and it is so loud it shakes the ground. Remember when everyone had one (ok it was '66-'74) ??? Now, you will never hear those sounds again and thank goodness the world is a better place because of it. Controls are in place and they are respected and enforced (enforcement, a key concept, anyone want to talk gun control?). Since these noisemakers are registered like powerboats, they could be subject to annual inspection (think of the state revenues THAT would generate). This commentary could go on and on and on because I am having a kneejerk (or just a jerk) reaction to yet another group of people pretending to be self rightous blah blah blah. I'm ready to be flamed.....but I bet the flamers have a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside their garage! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 10:25:21 PDT
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