Alaska faces an impending energy crisis as natural gas supplies from the Cook Inlet, which powers over 70% of the state’s largest electrical grid, are dwindling. Experts predict shortfalls as early as 2027, with recoverable gas potentially running out by the mid-2030s.
The Jones Act prevents Alaskans from shipping their own natural gas within the state. Federal law requires it to be shipped on US-made LNG tankers, which they don’t have.
LNG tankers haven’t been made in the US since before the ’80s. They can be made for millions less in Europe.
Meanwhile, they are running out of natural gas in a state filled with natural gas.
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If the gov’t can find a way to complicate our lives and make eveything less efficient and more expensive, they will always choose that way
Inept planning, math does not ad up. Why it would cost millions more for the tankers to be manufactured in the US. Has to be the works of inept bureaucrats.
OSHA, Unions, Turd World wages vs. US steel worker wages, USCG Regulations……shall I go on?
So why was the Jones Act passed in the first place and when? Was this before Alaska was a state? We should look at repealing it. Seems like it could be an easy win if Trump gets behind this. He’s big on energy production so maybe he and Congress can agree to repeal the law.
It was passed in 1920 so needs to be done away with now
What the HELL is going on with these people???????????