there is gonna be NOTHING left

[geochem]

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Originally posted by Rob Tucker


It is not invalid in the extreme. Petroleum is shipped around the world to all corners. The cost of shipping to Hawaii is not substantially different than anywhere else on the planet. The main difference, in U.S. terms, for Hawaii and California, are the taxes.

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Rob, you are only half right in your statement: there are two very large differences in Hawaii. The first is the Jones Act - shipping to Hawaii is a virtual monopoly - I was told by a shipping broker - after I had paid his ~$100,000 invoice - that he could have shipped two containers from the Mainland to India for what I paid for EACH of my containers from Long Beach to Hilo. The second is the strangle-hold the state holds over shore-side infrastructure. You want to ship cheap gas to Hawaii? where are you going to store it at the port? How long is it going to take to build a tank to store that cheap gas? How much time have you got???

The taxes are just the insult added to the existing injury that we are subject to every day by our union lap-dog politicians...