First, on BWI, I jumped on sa_meridith too fast because I didn't think through the time involved. Four or five drinks sounds like lot, but if you spread it over four or five hours, you're not going to be over .08 BAC. According to the chart on wikipedia, you may not even be over .03 Obviously excessive drinking is problem on the lake, but I don't want to get to the point where no drinking is allowed.
Tis, on gas tax, guessing the record keeping in NH, they would have to go through each quarters tax payment by hand and decide from the company name if the gas was marine or road use. It might be easier to track requests for gas tax rebates, but a lot of boaters don't file for them.
Overall, gas data might not be that usefull. Because of the huge increase in PWCs over the last ten years, I'd bet the gas usage has gone down dramatically. Plus many outboards are now efficient four-strokes and many larger boats have fuel injection.
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