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I absolutely agree that it's better for the stuff to be dismantled here than somewhere where the workers would be more at risk and I see the point about free trade. The point is that America is technologically at least on a par with if not further ahead than Britain. While America has a stronger economy than Britain, we have a falsely inflated economy due to lots of low interest lending. Consequently a lot of stuff over here is more expensive. Given this, it would surely be cheaper for the ships to be hauled to somewhere well kitted out in the states and have it done there, rather than drag them all the way over here to do the same job. The only conclusion I could come to is that there is some legislation which stops the ships being dismantled in the US that we don't have over here. For such legislation to exist in the first place, there would surely have to be some good reason. That's what worries me.
The title of this thread is a bit badly phrased, but I was using tabloid tactics to get people to look. Sorry. It's really not meant in UK vs US way, just in a wtf?! way.
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