And though the images of the disaster may turn off many people to cruising, experts say it's still one of the safest transportation methods available.

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One of the biggest culprits yet to be addressed is actually ocean-going vessels, which are not held to the same diesel fuel emission standards as land-locked methods of transportation.

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The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers, goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

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Because it was a previously producing company, it is ahead of the others as they must build facilities, validate their production methods and solve energy and transportation issues.

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In that situation, the National Transportation Safety Board assigned much of the blame on the utility, saying that it had no methods in place to detect structural weaknesses in its pipeline.

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