First Mate: Crew, I've got good news and bad news.
First the good news: you have two hours off to rest.
Now the bad news; after the rest, the captain wants to go water skiing.
Posted on 05/23/2018 11:45:07 AM PDT by rey
Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. But that is not the only scandal in the shipping world. Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – reveals that the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers pump out killer chemicals linked to thousands of deaths because of the filthy fuel they use. We've all noticed it. The filthy black smoke kicked out by funnels on cross-Channel ferries, cruise liners, container ships, oil tankers and even tugboats. It looks foul, and leaves a brown haze across ports and shipping lanes. But what hasn’t been clear until now is that it is also a major killer, probably causing thousands of deaths in Britain alone. As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars. Because of their colossal engines, each as heavy as a small ship, these super-vessels use as much fuel as small power stations. But, unlike power stations or cars, they can burn the cheapest, filthiest, high-sulphur fuel: the thick residues left behind in refineries after the lighter liquids have been taken. The stuff nobody on land is allowed to use. Thanks to decisions taken in London by the body that polices world shipping, this pollution could kill as many as a million more people in the coming decade – even though a simple change in the rules could stop it.
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You cannot suggest that...there needs to be wind powered submarines...and solar powered aircraft carriers...!!!
THE ENVIROS WOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT.......................
the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers
Note to Fred, those superships are also keeping the
EAST in hard cash, don’t forget that.
Bunker fuel is nasty. Burning it produces prodigious quantities of H2S, which is deadly at levels below 100 PPM.
Requiring shipping companies to use cleaner fuels such as diesel or LNG, all of a sudden the costs to ship goods from China to the US helps level the playing field without tariffs. Win - win.
Let the Enviro’s help us for a change!
“Thats right, they would tax your horse farts by putting a rectal meter on the animals.”
Bill Nye likes THAT idea!
So at least we can agree to eliminate all the regulations on cars.
What should we do about the filthy, dirty gasses that the volcano in Hawaii is spewing out?
--I am sort of curious as to what portion of the world's annual "pollution" the Hawiian volcano has spewed forth---
That is a great recommendation to reduce the impact of climate change!!!!
When I was in the USN, I spent a week or so on the USS Lexington out of Pensacola...she was on her last legs as a training ship, so she was in pretty lousy shape.
It was damned awful. Bunker fuel fumes inundated the compartment I was sleeping in...I could taste it, it made me nauseous, the food tasted like bunker fuel...I couldn’t sleep. Ever try to sleep when you are really sick with a bad fever, and the best you can get is a subdued wakefulness? It was like that.
It was as if the tanks were venting directly into the compartment I was in.
Ugh. I was never so happy to get off a ship as I as I was to get off the Lexington. It wasn’t the crew’s fault, this was the late Seventies and I guess they just didn’t have enough money to keep her maintained well.
Tax it, of course . . .
</sarcasm>
You know, this would make a great ad campaign for what it was like under the Obama-Bush years.
Shut up and ROW!
Ok, then they can man the slave ship oaes.
I don’t have a problem with that................
ROFLMAO!!!.........................
I wonder if this is the stuff that was in a huge tank behind my house next to the railroad when I was growing up in the 1950’s. It was for the steam engines before diesels in Oregon.
But the enviros will
Now this is funny. The world is so messed up with this "free trade" globalist BS average people, like you I guess, cannot imagine that durable goods can(and I would argue should) be made IN THE USA.
They wanted clean, sustainable, renewable energy....................they’re it...............
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