Laws killing US economy, driving up prices: Jones Act, Foreign Dredge Act

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Fed up with high gas prices and slow Amazon deliveries? Blame these 2 century-old laws that need to be repealed.

requiring the extensive use of dredging vessels in Louisiana and one in the Netherlands is illuminating. The two Louisiana projects had costs of $7.47 and $24.54 per cubic yard of sand moved. Combined, the two projects moved 24.6 million cubic yards of sand for a total price tag of $334 million. The Dutch project, which moved a total of 28.1 million cubic yards of sand, had a cost per cubic yard of just $1.97, for a total price tag of $55.5 million.

that it could perform large dredging projects in the United States for 60% of the cost of US firms and complete them three times as fast.

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