Posted on 05/11/2021 11:21:30 AM PDT by Dacula
The Biden administration said Tuesday it is moving to temporarily waive a law that requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on U.S.-owned and operated vessels. The move over the Jones Act comes in response to the ransomware attack that led to a shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, a critical artery supplying fuels to the East Coast. The U.S. Department of Transportation said in a statement that it has "started the work needed to enable consideration of a temporary and targeted waiver of the Jones Act," and that it is surveying qualified vessels that can carry petroleum products within the Gulf and from the Gulf up the Eastern Seaboard. Colonial Pipeline is working to restore the system that provides 45% of the fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast by the end of the week.
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Let me guess. Chinese ships will take up the offer.
This whole thing stinks of Burisma level corruption.
And look how vulnerable we are to cyber attacks.
More chaos. The theme for the JoHo administration.
My understanding is that in Europe the companies go ahead and pay these ransoms. Maybe even some US cities do.
Weren’t the democrats give $4Trillion to fix ‘infrastructure’ 8 years ago?
Yup. jao xiden is selling out America to china faster than all the presidents for the past 50 years not named Reagan and Trump combined.
If they are moving to do this, then this is a much, much bigger deal than we are aware of at this point.
Everything is being orchestrated from the top down . . . why? to smuggle in material to be used by terrorists to dismantle the normalcy of America so that it can be remade in the eyes of the globalists. Prepare folks, these are all signs of the Lord’s soon return for His Bride - His church. It is high time for you to get saved by calling upon the name of the Lord, not Mary, not the saints, not the church of your choice, and not your so-called “good works” which are all “filthy rags” in God’s sight.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord SHALL be saved. You do NOT want to enter the period of time that is coming known by Bible-believers as the “Tribulation” period.
That was my first thought.
We have a security problem, so we’re going to bring in the Chinese. Hell, how about the Russians?
Unfortunately, public skoooling has made American’s too stupid to notice the idiocy.
We’ve got gas lines today. Many stations are empty. Thanks, Joe. 🤬
They really are taking their time dealing with this.
How many ChiComs can you fit in a shipping container? How many shipping containers can you convince Xiden to disperse along the eastern seaboard?
time for the oil company shills to check in.
where are you?
1. Hacker attack shuts down pipeline
2. Gas shortage causing line ups
3. Waive law to allow non-US transport between ports
Looks like a duck and all that.
And what is pissing me off is the GOP is silent, no attacks, no solutions. Just look at GOP twitter. About 20 posts since last Friday about the stupid jobs report. A couple about Kamala not visiting border, as if that would solve anything. A gawd awful Mothers Day tweet about getting women back to work. They are terrible.
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