My problem is that I went smaller vehicle-wise and boat-wise both, a
long time ago, so I've got nowhere to go for savings now. I run a G3
Eagle 175 with a Yamaha 50 on it. I'd save some gas switching to a 4
stroke, but I don't bun all that much now, and the trade-up price tag
would take years to reach break-even. Can't live without my trips to
Champlain every three weeks or so, and each of them between towing up
and back, and back & forth while I'm up there for a couple days, is
about 50 gallons in the truck and another 10 or 12 in the boat. Other
than that and maybe a yearly trip to Maine and a few trips to the
Hudson, I rarely fish more than 50 miles from home, and if I burn 10
gallons in a month in the boat, it's a lot.

I did pick up a used kayak to fish a couple no-motors-at-all lakes last
year, but only used it once. Maybe I'll fish from the yak a little more
often this year. Gotta take a-hole lessons first though, so I'll fit in
with the yak crowd.