https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5847263-trump-jones-act-fuel-prices-iran-war/
So much winning!
The inevitable creep toward complete implementation of Project 2025 continues, and yet POTUS was so adamant that he had nothing to do with it.
Hopefully my ship stays employed and i can keep my job, this could seriously impact jobs of US mariners, shipyard workers, and everyone else supporting the US maritime trade
I’m sure if those negative impacts occur, those seafarers who did vote for current POTUS will somehow blame Biden.
Man, fuel prices have not gone down and the waiver was extended anyway. I don’t get it. My old captn told me an ATB lost a contract today to a Marshal Island flagged tanker.
This Jones Act waiver is probably a blessing in disguise.
So far there have only been something like 10 shipments under the waiver. What will it be in another 90 days? Certainly less than one per day.
Will these shipments reduce prices at the pump? Not a penny.
will a few companies and mariners be harmed temporarily? No doubt about it.
This waiver may finally disprove the myth that the Jones Act is responsible for higher consumer prices, and that all transportation problems can be resolved by getting rid of it.
Can you expound on what the run was or what companies?
Anything to defend Mr. Trump! God bless him!
Of course he had nothing to do with it, he is incapable of developing a coherent thought much less a plan. He is simply a useful idiot, a carnival barker who sells the product to a witless audience.
I asked in social media my friends in Puerto Rico if anyone has seen savings during the waiver. Only one (1) person said we need 6 months to actually see the savings. I laughed. So no one has seen savings. I like to see the face of that clown from the Kato Institute seen that he is still wrong on his claiming.
I’m not a Trump supporter. I really wish he would STFU.
However, I will give him a pat on the back when he does something right, like eliminating Iran’s nuclear program.
He just needs to keep bombing until Iran surrenders or is totally destroyed, and we can go get their enriched uranium.
Trump needs to destroy every small boat capable of laying mines or being used as a drone, and destroy all the coastal drones and missiles. If every coastal town has to be bombed and bulldozed flat like Gaza to keep Hormuz open, so be it.
I don’t agree with the Jones Act waivers, but I think they won’t have much effect, and may workout to our long term advantage.
What are you? 
Do you really advocate to destroy a country with 92 mill. people and a millennium old civilisation, just because you think they may, one day sometime in the future, possibly want to develop a nuclear weapon?
There are already several countries with such weapons that that may, some day, sometime in the future, have an unstable leader that may hit that big red button on a gut feeling, or in a rage over some perceived insult or threat. Would you like to obliterate them to?
Iran already agreed to and complied with an agreement to limit it’s nuclear ambitions to peaceful purposes in 2015, until some idiot came along and tore it up because he didn’t like the POTUS that signed it.
Besides, the stockpile and enrichment facilities was obliterated in July last year, burried so deep that nobody could get to it, remember?
I’m confused…are we trying to liberate the Iranian people or destroy them?
Bombing Iran until it is totally destroyed is not liberating them. Pretty sure all the expat Iranians aren’t asking us to destroy their country and its people.
We most certainly could destroy Iran if we wanted to, but that would be a war crime of a scale that the world has never known. In doing so we would likely kill more people than Stalin, Hitler, and Mao combined. I pray to God that isn’t what any one in power has in mind.
Perhaps you were joking, but to suggest such carnage and the death of so many civilians is madness.
For context Iran has almost 4 times as many people as North Korea.
There was a fairly good report on Marketplace explaining that the cost of gasoline is likely affected by rather less than a penny per gallon by recent Jones Act waivers.
Basically it is all another gift for the well connected who get the mine while American working stiffs really just get the shaft.
Disgusting.
unless you adopt the thinking or follow the instructions of your ally Bibi/Israel
But I thought we were draining the swamp…
Iran is run by crazy Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who are essentially a martyrdom seeking suicide cult.
They answer only to their misguided perception of their God.
They do not feel that they are under any obligation to keep any agreement with infidels, and they never have, and never will.
In fact, their only obligation with regard to infidels is to kill them.
Iran has been the primary sponsor of terrorism worldwide for many years.
It is indisputable that they are well along a very intentional path to building nuclear weapons. They intend to use them. This cannot be tolerated.
In order to restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, it will probably be necessary to destroy the cities and villages along it, and the mountain passes to it. Unfortunately, it will probably be necessary for US troops to take and hold this area for months.
In order to provide for the large population of Iran, its oil facilities must be seized and placed into trust for the people (sort of like the Norwegian oil trust), except the oil dividends must be mostly paid to the people, not to a government.
It must not be possible for $500 million a day in oil revenue to be used to fund weapons and terrorism.
The Strait of Hormuz requires a violent and destructive military liberation. The mines, drones and missiles must be destroyed, and it must not be possible for them to be replaced.
Depriving the terror regime of funding will enable the people to overthrow it and liberate themselves.
Once the Iranian people sort out the terrorists, Iran will gladly turnover its uranium, and shut down its nuclear program.
The Iranian people are smart, educated, highly productive, and Western leaning. Once they are rid of the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, they will do well and earn their rightful place in the modern world.
If they had nuclear weapons and were foolish enough to use them on anyone, I’m pretty sure we and our allies would turn their country into a sheet of glass.
The crazy Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists wouldn’t care. They be happy martyrs on the way to their 72 virgins.
Is this the end of the US maritime industry?
I’m not asking in jest, I’m asking if this is a career that I should continue to pursue.