ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

If this truck driver is accurate in his statements, we are in deep "do-do". Get your stuff now, because things will be getting a lot worse before they get better.

https://www.nationalsecurity.news/2021-11-02-americas-shipping-crisis-will-not-end.html

tbutkovich

I wonder if the infrastructure bill has funded the improvements of our port capacity to install more cranes, dock space, warehouses, and workers to handle the increasing volume of shipping containers and to streamline the shipping process to reduce the turnaround time for trucks to pick up the cargo.

Probably not. I am sure Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is too busy with the twins to worry about this trucking bottleneck.

Gatsby

That will be no small undertaking.

1. The volume of inbound traffic at L.A. & L.B. ports has tripled in the past 10 years.
2. The L.A. &L.B. ports have no place to expand, geographically speaking that is.
3. The labor unions are successfully preventing any automation of material handling.
4. Narrow Minded, Near sighted Idiots are in charge of the entire operation.

Solution: BUY AMERICAN!

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

A truly independent and non-partisan news media would ask these questions of our Transportation Secretary. But, that would only happen with "A truly independent and non-partisan news media", so I do not hold out a lot of hope.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

The key to destroying shipping is
Making things worse. We have a shipping magnate who owns shipping companies and is also presently head of the United Postal Service. As things continually get worse and nobody gets any Chinese crap for Christmas
There will be a huge scream to fix this problem because you know how we need our Chinese garbage for Christmas.
This will fan the flames for saving the sinking shipping industry. And …taadaa!
DeJoy Shipping and Mail companies.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

I’m sure it’s not buttigieg, it’s DeJoy.
Buttigeig is is a government employee.
DeJoy owns shipping companies. And also is a government employee, But the blame will go to buttigeig and not DeJoy.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Maybe we should stop importing more crap and giving up land and treasure to satisfy the indomitable inflow of supply side goods.
Keynesian Economy would eradicate these problems. The “we can’t afford it” argument makes no sense in the real world.
We can’t afford “not to make it here” .

tbutkovich

We built deep water ports in Vietnam but have not done much in the port cities in the US. I do agree that we really screwed up letting China produce everything because of their cheap labor.

Now they produce semiconductors, drugs, solar panels, furniture and so many other critical products and they have been accumulating mines of rare earth materials.

Agree, we need to build new plants here to recapture all types of production, but Joe Biden’s Corporate tax increases will prevent that from happening! Joe Biden’s plan is to destroy the American Economy by his stupid policies. He will always put us at the disadvantage of having us rely on other countries. Look at what he’s done to the oil companies. We are once again totally dependent on Midfle East Oil. He replaced Trump’s energy independence policy with the Biden energy dependence policy. His energy Secretary just laughed when she was asked about what she is going to do about the rise in gasoline prices.

The whole Biden administration is a bunch of idiots who are in their jobs for one reason, the large taxpayer funded government paychecks! They are totally incompetent!

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Ever notice how long it takes traffic on a highway to return to normal AFTER an accident scene is cleared? BTW - hasn't it occurred to anyone that the ships piled up offshore....................................are carrying IMPORTED shit?

I see this as a wake up call for all Americans; we need to manufacture shit right here, using materials and parts produced right here, using employees born right here.

With fuel prices climbing...................why are we EXPORTING natural gas, gasoline and other petroleum products?

Wonttakeitanymore

But American! Ur right! Buy from the little guy before Brandon destroys him!

Wonttakeitanymore

God help those poor kids!

America 1 Loc: South Miami

We do not need to produce more "shit" the need is to produce more quality and import less "shit."
Out Of Control. The Energy Report 11/08/2021
as prices are out of control as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughs it off. The poor and the middle class are getting blindsided by the Biden energy policies and now they want to do something about it.

Crude oil had been on a tear and fell faster than Biden’s poll numbers when the Energy Secretary laughed off higher US energy production saying that there was no magic wand to fix high gas prices. Now she is saying the Biden administration will investigate options to address the price at the pump.
Maybe she found the magic wand that President Donald Trump had that brought back manufacturing jobs to the US. The one that Biden said did not exist.
Yet the Biden administration is in panic mode after the passage of the Build Back Better bill did not increase his poll numbers and it will only add to energy demand.
The same energy is now more controlled by OPEC and Russia because of the Biden administrations and the Democrat's war on fossil fuels.
Oil demand is also rising because the U.S. is lifting covid restrictions for many foreign travelers. The U.S. will open its doors to travelers from Mexico, Canada, the UK, India, and most of Europe as of Monday and that will increase jet fuel and gasoline demand.

Diesel prices look to be near the bottom. Heating oil that has struggled should find new life. Look to buy the Biden dip. Look to buy the back end of the curve if they release oil.

The Biden administration is starting to realize that the green energy transition isn’t going to be easy.
One must assume that their goal is to raise the price of gasoline and oil to such a high level that it squeezes the average consumer and forces them into alternatives.
The problem is they’re going to find out that their alternatives are not going to be very much cheaper.
The cost of electricity is also going to be on the rise.
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/3493376/out-of-control-the-energy-report-11082021

Carol Kelly

Of course not. Thanksgiving is an important American celebration but we can do it without help from the ships bringing stuff from other countries. Christmas is another story. It is a religious holiday, therefore all we need to celebrate Christmas is the tree ,
the symbol of eternal life, and faith in the one God and his gift to us, his son, Jesus Christ.

Carol Kelly

The labor unions are and have been everywhere in the world, communist by definition.

bobbysatellite

How do you buy American when we don't make anything and the Chinks are making it????????????????