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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CO_4X4" data-source="post: 499603" data-attributes="member: 33592"><p>I happened to be watching a cool Jon rebuild video a few weeks ago and it was all geared out for batteries and an electric engine because "more and more lakes are prohibiting fuel engines for environmental reasons" which I thought was interesting (the idea of how much fuel is burned to mine, process, ship and charge those batteries, let alone disposing of them, always being ignored) and wondered how many lakes really are banning gas boats these days considering the very high cost of electric motors and the massive inventory of gas motors owned by boaters.  I've never seen one and I'm in a fairly progressive environmental city so I don't know if this really is a trend, a fad or if it's really as big of a deal as the guy in the video made it out to be or if he was just saying that because he was building an all electric boat.</p></blockquote><p></p>