Polluting for Pleasure

by Andre Mele and Audre Mele

Book Overview

In the tradition of "Silent Spring" and "Unsafe At Any Speed" comes this frightening environmental study. The message: seemingly innocuous recreational boats, particularly outboards, are polluting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393035107
• ISBN13: 9780393035100
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Cleaner water, Cleaner air

I read this book in the summer of 1994, and was very impressed with the depth of research that went into it. Mr. Mele was deeply and properly concerned about the impact that 2 cycle outboard motors have on the marine environment. He pointed out that the average outboard released about 30% of the fuel it consumed unburned into the air and water. The total volume of fuel was calculated. This book is critical of the regulation, or lack thereof, that the US EPA had put on marine engine emissions. There has been a significant improvement in new engines since 1993, I would like to see what Mr. Mele thinks of the current selection of outboard and inboard marine engines. This should be required reading for every boat owner.