Jones Act
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Epstein: Suspending the Jones Act would lower California fuel prices
“And if you suspend the Jones act, then you can get more efficient transportation, which means we can at least have lower prices here. And we can have less of a price shock”
Hays: Jones Act has failed to make US shipbuilding globally competitive
“I'm just saying if you look at American shipbuilding, it's, it certainly hasn't allowed us to be competitive on, on a global stage.”
Epstein: Keeping Strait of Hormuz open is only truly effective oil fix
“So high level, open the Strait of Hormuz. That's the only thing that really works. Then you can talk about Saudi mid-East spare capacity, our emergency capacity, and IEA emergency capacity, and then below that you have Canada Jones Act and US production.”
Mohnot: The Jones Act is highly protectionist to US shipbuilding
“So like the Jones Act basically says that if you, if you're shipping goods between two U.S. Ports, you need to use a U.S. Built ship crewed by U.S. Citizens and owned by U.S. Citizens. So like it's super protectionist to the U.S. Shipbuilding industry and U.S.…”
Grabow: Jones Act requires domestic ships be US-built, owned, and crewed
“The Jones Act basically mandates that if you're going to transport something by water within the United States, you have to use a vessel that meets four conditions. The vessel has to be flagged and registered in the United States. It has to be at least 75% own…”
Grabow: East Coast refineries import more foreign oil than domestic oil
“East Coast refineries, say, in the Mid-Atlantic they import more oil from places like Libya or the Middle East or Nigeria than they do from Texas, from the Gulf Coast.”
Grabow: Zero Jones Act-Compliant LNG Tankers Exist in the United States
“We can't transport it by water to other parts of the United States because there are no LNG tankers that comply with the Jones Act.”
Grabow: U.S. lacks any Jones Act-compliant offshore wind installation vessels
“But in the United States, we can't
Do that because we don't have any vessels wind turbine installation vessels that comply with the Jones Act.”
Grabow: Dominion staged Virginia offshore wind pilot from Canada
“And in fact this is what Dominion Energy did for their offshore wind demonstration project off the coast of Virginia a few years ago
They installed, I think, two turbines, and they did the whole, they ran the whole thing out of Canada, I think St. John, Canad…”
Grabow: Military contracts, not the Jones Act, generate most U.S. shipyard revenue
“Navy contracts, which this is unrelated to the Jones Act, but they also have you know, Navy and military contracts are really their bread and butter. Jones Act is kind of a sideshow for most of them. The majority of revenue is from government contracts.”
Grabow: Alaska law mandates lobbying against Jones Act despite delegation's support
“It is written into Alaskan state law, it is a duty of the governor to lobby for the Jones Act's repeal, and yet all three members of the Alaska delegation are pro-Jones Act.”
Grabow: 1980s GAO study found Jones Act cost Alaska 2% of income
“And the GAO, they did a study back in the eighties about the cost to Alaska with the Jones Act.
They concluded that it cost Alaskans, it was something like the equivalent of two percent of the state's income was the cost of the Jones Act.”