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Arabella Cairone English 8 Ms. Alldredge 23-5-17 Oil Spills: How to Prevent a Catastrophe There have been 40 large oil spills in the past 17 years, 103 oil spills since 2000. (Wikipedia) On average, 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled into U.S. waters each year, that number could and would easily double with a large oil spill. (Live) With the amount of oil spilled into the ocean each year, why are our tools not perfected? There are many new pieces of technology that has been developed but not used like carbon sponges and magnetic soap. This tech may be better than the skimmers and chemical distributors that are being used now. Is there a more efficient way to clean up oil spills? Is there new technology that can do that? From 1971 to 2000 there have been more than 250,000 oil spills in U.S. waters and approximately 1.7 billion gallons of oil spilled from tankers since 1970. (UPI). Deepwater Horizon was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. Eight nation...
