I am sitting in a hire cruiser in a marina on Lough Erne. There are around 160 private vessels here some obviously costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. There is a beautiful brand new boat sitting on the slipway ready to be launched. All these boats are either petrol or diesel. I am thinking that, at least as far as boats are concerned, fossil fuels will remain in high deman for many years after 2030.
well they could presumably burn fuels based on fermented sugar cane and/or converted veggie oils, but then if we do that too much we are eating into our ability to grow foodstuffs instead.
Mind you, tied up they presumably could just have a shore power link.
I was impressed on the Caledonian canal a few weeks back how the hire boats (a social class below your example but interesting) now almost universally sport 230V inlets, so the diesel engines are not needed to be run to supply lights heating and power while moored at night.
So there are some easysavings to be made.
Mind you the number of leads trailing into the canal and looping over jetties at risk of tripping and getting wet was a bit odd.
Its been a few years since my last canal hol, and that was new.
