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Is the Jones Act actually controversial? The only real complainers I see about it are businesses who are upset they can't fire their American crew and replace i
by malfist 4y ago
Is the Jones Act actually controversial? The only real complainers I see about it are businesses who are upset they can't fire their American crew and replace it with cheap foreign labor that doesn't have to follow US labor laws.
- thehappypm 4y agoYes. It is dumb. My state needs to buy natural gas from Trinidad because we can’t ship it in from another state.
- benlivengood 4y agoIs natural gas significantly cheaper from the U.S. than from foreign markets? It seems like a huge arbitrage opportunity if so.
- thehappypm 4y agoProbably not, but it’s stupid nonetheless. It would be so much better to leave the money in the USA..
- malfist 4y agoYour state can ship it in from another state, if they use american labor.
- thehappypm 4y agoU.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, and U.S.-built. Not one ship meets this criteria for LNG
- legitster 4y ago"If they only paid a lot more money for the same thing" kinda makes his point though.
- michael1999 4y agoYes. It makes everything in Hawaii painfully expensive.
- michael1999 4y agoPuerto Rico too.
- gwright 4y agoOther negative side effects that I'm aware of: * disaster recovery efforts to Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria * cost of goods in Hawaii
- legitster 4y agoI mean, yes? It makes everything slightly more expensive at the benefit of a small group of special interests.
- sofixa 4y agoFrom what I've heard it's exceptionally painful and expensive for US overseas territories like Marianas, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Hawaii.
- PeterisP 4y agoIt sounds like there could be a meaningful compromise that removed this requirement for Hawaii, Alaska, and the overseas territories while leaving the existing rules for the mainland states.