Century-Old Anchor: The Cost of Keeping Up with the Jones Act

Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert & Emily Bissett

“Imagine that you wanted to do some grocery shopping. To do so, you drive your car from your house not to the grocery store, but to a parking lot miles and miles away from the grocery store.  There, you get on a bus (which you have to pay for) that will then take you to the grocery store. You do your shopping, get back on the bus (paying once again) with your groceries, which then takes you back to your car where you can unload the groceries from the bus and reload them into your car before ultimately driving home. This would be absurd. It’s also remarkably similar to how people in the great states of Hawaii and Alaska must do almost all of their shopping, thanks to the Jones Act.” (03/13/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/century-old-anchor-the-cost-of-keeping-up-with-the-jones-act/