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Old 04-09-2008, 04:36 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Bear Islander View Post

Here we have the people that think one guy cruising in a 1,700HP boat is OK. But complaining about a 209HP generator used to make a movie with a crew of hundreds and an audience into the hundreds of millions.
And both the 1,700HP boat (I've yet to see this creature that you claim is so common on our lake) and the movie and its crew are both luxuries that serve no real purpose, other than sheer entertainment.

Since movies (and the bulk of anything that comes out of Hollyweird) has no positive impact on the environment, it is just as easy to argue that you are a key part of a larger-scale destruction of the environment and needless consumer of resources than the "1,700HP" boat you cite.
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