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In terms of GHGs, cars dwarf cruise ship traffic.

In terms of SO2 and NO2 pollutants, cars burn very clean fuel, very efficiently, with a catalytic converter to scrub their exhaust. Ships run on shitty bunker oil, which is just one step above combustible sludge on the purity scale... And aren't equipped with catalytic converters.

The thing is, even if you legislate that ships can't run on bunker oil in your territorial waters, they'll just run on it while at sea, and switch to a legislated fuel when they dock.




Surely an entity such as the EU could go so far as to ban the sale of bunker oil to passenger cruise lines with offices in the EU, or something to that effect?


Or just ban companies that use it from operating in the EU




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