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Permalink Reply by tc on February 28, 2014 at 7:18

The Jones Act also didn't allow NJ, who was out of road salt, to import 40,000 tons of road salt from Maine, without going thru a lot of red tape and causing it to arrive after the snow storm.  In the end they had to use a barge.

New Jersey is having some of its emergency salt supply barged in after the federal government would not waive a provision of the 1920 Maritime Act that prohibits foreign vessels from making domestic deliveries. Simpson said last week he had requested that a foreign ship, the Anastasia S., which had already made a delivery in Maine and was docked in Searsport at the time, be permitted to move the salt because it was headed to Port Newark empty. But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied the waiver and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration instead found the American-based barge to make the delivery.

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on February 28, 2014 at 10:03

i knew c3 got really short in the midwest and upper midwest due to a late and heavy corn harvest and an enterprise c3 pl outage sometime over the summer preventing normal inventory buildup and, in no small part, due to epd's using the same line to batch ship gc natural gasoline north for ultimate delivery to the canadians for use as 'diluent' for their tar sands production. note: i understand the feds made them cease moving the c5+ , but, by the time they figured things out, the horse was already out of the barn.

back to c3 price, i didn't realize just how bad things got up there. a neighbor's mom and dad run a beef cattle operation in missouri. she was down here last week when she told me that one of their neighbors didn't buy/order, 'pre-need', enough propane to last 'em through the winter. in feb, they ended up paying $6.75/g fob their place. and, that's just brutal. i surely hope our good friends in mid-atlantic and ne states didn't have to pay anything like that. yup, that's what i hope.

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