If you're a fisherman trolling the lake-shore, or Dick Pope, Sr. offering boat rides through the Gardens, you've already seen the future and are using electric engines. Yes, the Future is Electric. Don't believe it you say? Ha, just wait until oil goes up over $100.00/barrel again and in addition to Nautique re-rolling out their electric ski boat, all kinds of here-to-for secret and some not-so-secret, electric projects will emerge. Envoy: https://newatlas.com/marine/evoy-most-powerful-electric-outboard-motor/?fbclid=IwAR2ONgLgEGBw_iFjPD7DmyY-jUQ8DK4_LMxhw4bZAAMQzVlvaADgcxujYcY (Photo - the quiet electric boat rides at Cypress Gardens waiting for passengers, 1942.) #waterskiing #showsking #electricboats #waveofthefuture #cypressgardens #nomorefivegallongascans (at Cypress Gardens, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgCY9kBLGL/?igshid=1qqu6nm1vvg8x