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Urge Bombardier and Yamaha Motor Corporation to join the 21st century and phase out dirty two-stroke engines!

What you can do:

Please send a letter to the presidents of Bombardier and Yamaha and urge them to cease production of their two-stroke engines.

Background

Both Bombardier and Yamaha Motor Corporation still manufacture outdated and highly polluting two-stroke marine outboard engines. Two-stroke technology is nearly half a century old and the California Air Resources Board estimates that operating a typical two-stroke for seven hours releases the same amount of pollution as driving a modern automobile 100,000 miles.

Cleaner technologies already exist. Companies such as Mercury Marine and Honda are producing four-stroke engines which are 95 percent cleaner than two-stroke models. In addition, four-strokes do not produce the choking blue smoke common to many two-stroke outboards. They are also more fuel efficient, which is not only better for the environment but for owners' pocketbooks.

Important!

Your personal experiences and buying decisions as a consumer are important to these companies, so please add your own thoughts at the start of the letter.

With your help we are making the difference!

-Your friends at Bluewater

RE:

Dear

(Add your personal comments above. They will appear at start of letter)

As someone who enjoys the great outdoors, I am greatly concerned about the impact two-stroke marine outboard engines have on America’s waterways.  

Two-stroke engines are outdated and highly polluting, releasing as much as 25 to 30 percent of their gas and oil fuel mixture unburned into the environment and producing a choking blue haze.  This pollution can have significant impacts upon air and water quality, visitor enjoyment, public health, and aquatic wildlife.

Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have adopted regulations regarding two-stroke outboards; however I believe your companies can do more.  Companies such as Honda are clearly leading on this matter by only producing cleaner four-stroke engines. Yamaha and Bombardier should do the same.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

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