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Oil Spills around the World Everybody uses oil. Most people know that it's used for gasoline, motor oil, and kerosene. Oil also is used for drugs, fertilizers, plastics, insecticides, and among other things we use everyday. To make all these things, oil must be transferred by tankers around the world. Everyday there is a chance that an oil tanker will be involved with a major oil spill.   The Exxon Valdez struck a reef and spilled a thick, cloud of oil into the sea. People remember the famous oil spill that occurred in Prince William Sound on May 23, 1989. It covered 800 miles of the coast of Alaska. As with many other spills, sea life was killed by the oil. In Prince William Sound, turtles, fish, salmon, and even sea otters were killed or injured by the spilled oil.

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