Trump considering lifting the Jones Act due to ongoing mistakes

[the watcher]

This is an old law aimed at supporting US owned merchant marine and shipbuilding. With the vague IDs of ship registrations and the global push I can't see how this even halfway enforced, but it may help. The landscape is definitely changing, we are becoming less self sufficient and more global, I hope it works out. Trump may waive the Jones Act for oil shipments. Let's repeal it instead.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This is an old law aimed at supporting US owned merchant marine and shipbuilding. With the vague IDs of ship registrations and the global push I can't see how this even halfway enforced, but it may help. The landscape is definitely changing, we are becoming less self sufficient and more global, I hope it works out. Trump may waive the Jones Act for oil shipments. Let's repeal it instead.

Excellent idea!

Especially since our $1 Trillion military budget doesn’t deliver much that actually helps the American people

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Where does the authority lie?
During the democrat squeeze-down on drilling by their refusal to lift the drilling ban back during W Bush’s term, gas rose to over $4 in 2008 after beginning his term just over $1.20. Bush removed a restriction on drilling in the Arctic that had been put in place by his old man as a way to placate the extremists protesting after the Exxon Valdez spill. It was an exec order so W had the authority to do it.
What’s Trump's leverage on this one?

 

[martybegan]

This is an old law aimed at supporting US owned merchant marine and shipbuilding. With the vague IDs of ship registrations and the global push I can't see how this even halfway enforced, but it may help. The landscape is definitely changing, we are becoming less self sufficient and more global, I hope it works out. Trump may waive the Jones Act for oil shipments. Let's repeal it instead.

It didn't seem to work, considering how terrible the state of our shipbuilding industry currently is.

 

[the watcher]

It didn't seem to work, considering how terrible the state of our shipbuilding industry currently is.

I think it's like a lot of our laws; selectively and whimsically enforced.