Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act
by Maursault on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:56PM
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> the Mississippi alone is the largest river system in the world.
Mississippi is only the largest in the world after the Nile, Amazon, & Yangtze.
Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act
by bobthepanda on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:03PM
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argh, not had the coffee yet. largest in North America.
It's also good that the Mississippi is so navigable, pretty much all the way north-south through the country up to Minneapolis. The Nile is only really navigable to Aswan High Dam, the Yangtze and Amazon fare better on this metric.
Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act
by yamtaddle on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:19PM
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Plus a ton of the Missouri is navigable. IIRC if you were to judge the Missouri the official continuation of the Mississippi, where they meet in St. Louis, the resulting river would be even longer than the Mississippi as currently judged (though, also IIRC, its total flow where it meets the Mississippi is the smaller of the two by a decent margin, so that'd be hard to justify)
Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act
by Maursault on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:56PM
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The Mississippi River Watershed includes the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, and 59% of all US rivers, draining parts or all of 32 states.[1] It is really an astoundingly massive river system, which is why it is the fourth largest in the world.
[1] https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9QxpflmIAz...
Water transport is much, much cheaper where there is not a burden, and is generally also more fuel-efficient per ton-mile. It should be possible for a wide variety of goods; the Mississippi alone is the largest river system in the world.