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SkiingAway t1_iuj9k84 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in New England Utility Urges Biden to Declare Emergency to Avoid Fuel Shortage by Nobiting

Uh, yes. You're trying to be sarcastic, but that's basically 100% accurate.

The US commercial shipbuilding industry is pretty much entirely dead outside of that. We build about zero ships of any substantial size other than the shipbuilding that's protected/subsidized by the military + the couple dozen Jones Act ships.

If it isn't built here for purposes of complying with either military or Jones Act rules....it isn't built here, ever.

World shipbuilding is ~49% China, ~39% South Korea, ~9% Japan, and the entire rest of the planet is basically a rounding error with 3-4% total market share.

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ZzeroBeat t1_iujfsuo wrote

so it sounds like its not really working as intended anyways. might as well just open it up and help reduce energy prices. i don't see how holding back on that is worth the thousands or whatever it is of shipbuilders that may or may not exist.

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SplyBox t1_iujqe7s wrote

Because the US government doesn’t like killing any amount of US jobs if it can help it

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