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zkemp: Even though the amount of oil spilled has dramatically decreased in recent years, gas prices are still skyrocketing. It's great that oil spills have decreased, but do the high gas prices go to show that we will never really recover from the indelible effects of the years when oil was spilled and wasted excessively? (4 months ago)

Greg "Bananaquit" Tito: Although this is undoubtedly a good trend, I wonder where the oil is being spilled. Nearshore spills and arctic spills are more environmentally damaging than deepwater spills, and it's possible that most current spills occur in congested shipping lanes near the coast. If this was the case, then the environmental damage would be decreasing at a slower rate. (4 months ago)

Ben1cat: I'm surprised that transportation only accounts for 5%. There is so much publicity on the damage that cars do to the atmosphere, I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to reduce that, but we should really put our main focus elsewhere. Obviously we need to aim a lot of the concern and efforts towards reducing the amounts of pollutants produced by the electric utilities. We also need to let people know what the main source of pollutants to the atmosphere are because I didn't know that electric utilities were the main source until I saw this graph. (4 months ago)

therecanonlybeonecarterhadley: I agree with kyle, we are focusing on how to stop all of the other forms of pollution but one of the real problems is electricity. Compared to electricity, fuel combustion is nothing. (4 months ago)