Entries for 'Cato Foundation'

... Since March, a Jones Act waiver for energy and fertilizer shipments has acted as a real-time experiment in what the country might look like without the law’s shipping restrictions ....

... The United States is nowhere close to becoming a competitive builder of large oceangoing cargo vessels, either under current conditions or under any plausible combination of subsidies or mandates ....

"Assessing the Jones Act: Perspectives from the Noncontiguous States and Territories"

... Seven years ago, the Cato Institute launched its project on reforming the Jones Act ....

... The protectionist law’s defenders claim U.S. shipbuilding would be virtually nonexistent without it, but it would be hard to do much worse ....

... none of the world’s more than 600 LNG tankers comply with the Jones Act ....

... Jones Act means that the Aloha State obtains most of its energy from far more distant and costlier foreign sources ....

... Green is the highest-scoring Democrat in this study ....

... U.S. shipbuilding numbers also trail Finland, the Netherlands, and Norway ....

... protectionist U.S. policies will inflate the cost of the island’s rebuilding effort ....

... After numerous delays and extensive cost overruns, Honolulu’s Skyline passenger rail system launched on June 30....

... In March 2020, a maritime shipping advisory panel offered a simple suggestion to the government: Charge all past and current members of two libertarian think tanks with treason ....

... The report examines the tax and spending choices made by the governors and discusses recent policy trends ....

... To avoid higher costs, many companies are forced to turn to imports ....

... In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline outage that has produced mounting fuel shortages along the East Coast, the Department of Transportation has ​announced that it is taking initial steps ....

... This is the messy reality of politics that must be acknowledged .... 

... Such waivers are perhaps best known for their use in recent decades to speed relief following natural disasters ....

... Pasha Hawaii's Horizon Spirit, recently departed Nantong after nearly 50 days in a local shipyard ....

...Hawaii’s general fund spending rose a hefty 5.7 percent in 2020, thus reducing the governor’s score in this report....

...Jones Act supporters in Hawaii can be forgiven for feeling a bit on edge these days....

...The Jones Act turns 100 years old today....

...rather than handing out taxpayer dollars to these firms....

...after Hawaii was annexed by the United States, and thus became subject to cabotage laws such as the PVSA, representatives from the territory complained that transportation to the U.S. mainland became more difficult than when Hawaii was still an independent kingdom....

...77% of the Jones Act fleet consists of unpowered barges....

...the bill would grant Jones Act exemptions to any state or territory not served by at least three Jones Act ocean carriers....