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Must not have invested money in lobbying DC. VW needs to spend a few million on lobbyists.

Exactly. Ships cause enormous amounts of pollution but are practically unregulated thanks to the lobbying influence of companies that import and export.

Ships are also pretty efficient per ton-mile, so there's that.

Maybe.

It was trivial to find this. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3...

In addition to that, the EU marine shipping system seems to be in some turmoil over some required major capital expenditures due to a double-hull regulation, which I also wanted to mention, but I can't quite find it.

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