Looks like Trump is about to suspend Jones act in some locations.

If Hawaii gets a waiver do you think prices will come down or will the shadowy figures who run the state just keep the extra cash?

If they include cargo and not just oil it might be a good time to pick up a JDM engine and transmission.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-weighs-jones-act-waiver-165424486.html

No, they will milk it as long as possible.

But to be fair, Ed Case has been against the act for years now and has tried to get rid of it for HI.  So let's see if he was just talking shit or serious about it.

Yes bury that Jones act! We are getting Graped out here by the likes of YB and Matson charging us up the @$$hole to ship vehicles among other things back and forth between the islands.

Competition is how you will start lowering prices, YB and Matson are taking advantage of being the only game in town for decades! This $#!+ needs to end.

Yes bury that Jones act! We are getting Graped out here by the likes of YB and Matson charging us up the @$$hole to ship vehicles among other things back and forth between the islands.

Competition is how you will start lowering prices, YB and Matson are taking advantage of being the only game in town for decades! This $#!+ needs to end.

We could have had an interisland ferry decades ago, but every time the idea comes up the shipping monopolies always strangle it in the cradle.

State gave Young Brothers a monopoly on inter Island shipping to insure service to ALL islands---not just the profitable ones. Matson can deliver cargo from the mainland to island ports but can not pick up cargo to deliver inter Island. Any flag vessel can deliver or pick up cargo in Honolulu so long as the vessel did not visit another U.S. port. Would repeal of the Jones Act result in a big savings? I think the state would suck up any money saved!

State gave Young Brothers a monopoly on inter Island shipping to insure service to ALL islands---not just the profitable ones. Matson can deliver cargo from the mainland to island ports but can not pick up cargo to deliver inter Island. Any flag vessel can deliver or pick up cargo in Honolulu so long as the vessel did not visit another U.S. port. Would repeal of the Jones Act result in a big savings? I think the state would suck up any money saved!

If they started sucking up those savings then the government will have NO JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER to raise our taxes anymore then they already are!

Quit begging us for more money if you pricks have a new means to "steal" from us.

And if they cant get that through their thick skulls its time to rat out our local politicians to Trump's Fed, while he has the power and take these @$$holes through the ringer!