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Amid widespread ire over gasoline shortages along the East Coast following the recent shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline due to the actions of Russian hackers, the Biden administration eventually issued waivers of the Jones Act (a law that President Joe Biden has repeatedly endorsed), allowing two foreign ships to transport fuel to alleviate the scarcity.
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Biden could waive Jones Act to curtail fuel shortage, White House says Katherine Doyle © Provided by Washington Examiner
The Biden administration said it is prepared to waive a controversial shipping rule temporarily to ease a fuel crunch in parts of the East Coast and South, six days after a cyberattack shuttered a major petroleum pipeline.
The law, the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, or Jones Act, requires trade between U.S. ports to be carried on maritime vessels built, owned, and operated by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. It bars non-U.S. ships from carrying petroleum northward from Gulf ports to the Eastern Seaboard.
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