03-29-2019, 06:08 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
It's not the shipping cost, it's the overhead of a government that acts like it's on an island in the middle of the Pacific. There's no competition, you pay whatever they demand, and pass those costs on to the consumer.
Kalakoa, I don't disagree that monopolies are a large part of the extra costs here (and the political class's insistence on supporting the monopolies - see the vacation rental issue as one of many examples) - but shipping is a significant element: I've spent well over $100K shipping goods and equipment to Hawaii - one of the shipping brokers told me, after he received a check for $70K from my project, that, for what it cost to send each container to me here in Hawaii, he could send two containers to India... We all pay the price of the Jones act daily in our cost of living...