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Otis Reid
@otis_reid
The Jones Act seems like very bad legislation but I still find it remarkable that it hasn’t even worked to create a US ship building industry. We just give up on doing intrastate sea commerce instead it seems.
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Colin Grabow
@cpgrabow
Puerto Rico imports LNG from Spain due to the JA while the US mainland exports LNG to...Spain. Can't make this up. x.com/cate_long/stat…
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L'homme à la Floridienne
@dekabri91046268
I support the important goal of sustaining a U.S. shipbuilding industry, but it seems clear the Jones Act has utterly failed to accomplish this and only serves to promote gross inefficiencies at terrific expense.
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Brett
@_Brett__
And we have such excellent waterways for it, too. Lots of good rivers and three great coastlines - they should have as much water traffic as the Rhine River in Germany.
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TurtlePrincip
@TurtlePrincip
Jones Act intention: domestic trade by water is so imperative that we can use it as a backbone to build naval infrastructure Jones Act result: this is so shitty that we are actively disincentivized from using our country's most valuable natural infrastructure
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Robert McMillan
@millenboy
There are approximately 180 U.S.-flag vessels between the three separate U.S.-flag fleets, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The three fleets consist of the domestic fleet, the international fleet and the Military Sealift Command (MSC).
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Andy Wildman
@andywildman
Roadways are subsidized to the moon, so why bother building expensive ass ships that have to go through slow union ports? Air freight optimized for all end-consumer expectations of immediate delivery. Next to no investment in new freight capacity by rail or by water in decades.
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