Lol. Oh yes, my dear, the libertarian is quite strong over there. From Scott to Kevin to Jonah there is no getting away from it. I appreciate some takes (I live in New England and love when Scott rails against the Jones Act (all ships carrying cargo between US ports must be US built and crewed. Unfortunately, there’s are zero LNG tankers…
Lol. Oh yes, my dear, the libertarian is quite strong over there. From Scott to Kevin to Jonah there is no getting away from it. I appreciate some takes (I live in New England and love when Scott rails against the Jones Act (all ships carrying cargo between US ports must be US built and crewed. Unfortunately, there’s are zero LNG tankers to travel between US ports so we buy all the gas that we can’t squeeze through our meager pipelines on the open market - in times past, even from the Russians - which is contributing to higher winter heating prices for us). But aside from that, I find it all very painful sometimes.
Although they do have some awesome MAGAs that comment over there. Getting the pulse of that crowd is always a good thing to keep tabs on and I must admit that their comments sections make that task very easy - especially now that Twitt…, errr, X is such a useless pile of crap for doing any research these days.
The Jones Act was supposed to protect American shipping and encourage it back in 1920. It has turned into an albatross that now hurts American shipping and needs to go.
Exemptions for things like fuel should be made and written into law. I would say “it would be great to open up places like Guam, Hawaii and Puerto Rico too”, but interestingly , Hawaii’s congressional delegation (all D) is part of the group who are fighting to keep it as is.
Lol. Oh yes, my dear, the libertarian is quite strong over there. From Scott to Kevin to Jonah there is no getting away from it. I appreciate some takes (I live in New England and love when Scott rails against the Jones Act (all ships carrying cargo between US ports must be US built and crewed. Unfortunately, there’s are zero LNG tankers to travel between US ports so we buy all the gas that we can’t squeeze through our meager pipelines on the open market - in times past, even from the Russians - which is contributing to higher winter heating prices for us). But aside from that, I find it all very painful sometimes.
Although they do have some awesome MAGAs that comment over there. Getting the pulse of that crowd is always a good thing to keep tabs on and I must admit that their comments sections make that task very easy - especially now that Twitt…, errr, X is such a useless pile of crap for doing any research these days.
The Jones Act was supposed to protect American shipping and encourage it back in 1920. It has turned into an albatross that now hurts American shipping and needs to go.
It needs to be fixed, but not thrown out. One word, "Reforger."
Exemptions for things like fuel should be made and written into law. I would say “it would be great to open up places like Guam, Hawaii and Puerto Rico too”, but interestingly , Hawaii’s congressional delegation (all D) is part of the group who are fighting to keep it as is.
Bless your heart.
Signed,
American Trucking Association
I went through history and counted up all the Communist Utopias and all the Randian Utopias and came up with a statistical tie.
I do not have degrees in poli-sci, anthropology, sociology, history, or anything else remotely relevant, so make of that what you will.