seattle truth <[email protected]> wrote: Hey, cut us a break. It burns a lot of oil shipping all that crap from China > : P JK
Good point. But I think that oil is tallied to our account, or to the accounts of the ship owners, not China. Ships use a lot of oil. They carry 80% of the world's trade goods. There is an interesting series about them this week in Slate about life on a container ship: http://www.slate.com/id/2274626/entry/2274627/ The ship uses 260 tons of oil per day. "Maersk is so Danish it contributes 15 percent of the country's GDP, and so big its ships use more oil than the state of Denmark." - Jed
