Amphibious
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The Price of Oil
I couldn't take my dogs for a run at their usual park this weekend. Why? Because it is an estuary for the San Francisco Bay, and the Bay's water and surrounding coast is coated with a layer of thick fuel oil that leaked out of a container ship that crashed into the Bay Bridge.
Some 58,000 gallons leaked out of the gash in the side of the ship after it inexplicably hit the bridge, the worst oil spill in the region in twenty years. This is the sea-going equivalent of tapping a parking meter with your bumper while backing into a parking space I suppose. "Ooops! Silly me! Should have seen that." Except the parking meter is hundreds of feet high and thousands of feet long and has cars driving on it.
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The salient question is "Why
SwineFactory - November 19, 2007
The salient question is "Why the f*ck are single-hulled tanker ships still even LEGAL?"... not only is every single oil spill an ecological disaster, it's also a travesty that the environments and cultures that get ravaged and destroyed for access to oil, it's refining, and the construction of pipelines, are further insulted by having that oil dumped into the ocean instead of reaching the market. All that waste and suffering for nought, all because some corporation doesn't want to hurt their margin by using better equipment.
Disgusting.