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>looked at the vast majority of wrecks as a big junkyard in the ocean.
>Wouldn't environmentalists be screaming bloody murder if we left all our car
>wrecks on the side of the road instead of towing them to a junkyard?
>What' the diff?
The 'diff' is that wrecks form a substrate for growth of marine life. Dead
cars cars don't, on the whole, promote growth of anything (except maybe
crime). Removal of portholes doesn't matter much to marine invertebrate
(unless they are living on them). Leave the wreck, but take the porthole?
/rat
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