REPORT: Pollution from 15 of world's biggest ships equal that of world's 760m cars

"The problem isn't necessarily with the ships' 109,000-horsepower (wtf!!) engines that endlessly spin away 24 hours a day, 280 days a year. In fact, these powerplants are some of the most fuel efficient units in the world. The real issue lies with the heavy fuel oil the ships run on and the almost complete lack of regulations applied to the giant exhaust stacks of these container ships."

Whenever I thought about pollution, Motor cars, power generation stations, industries came to mind, never thought about ships being such a big contributer.

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