What is “bunker fuel” and why is it so toxic to the environment?
Bunker fuel is the material that is burned for propulsion in most ships, and it’s used motor oil. When you take your car to have its oil changed and they take away the used oil from your car in big 55 gallon drums, a lot of that gets sold to the shipping industry where they put it in their engines and just burn it exactly as it comes out of that barrel, exactly as it came out of your car. And when your oil gets changed – the reason you change it is because it’s full of flecks of metal from the grinding of your gears and so forth. It’s been superheated so it’s now very thick and full of dirty materials, and it’s extremely toxic then when it’s burned.
