The proverbial camel has gotten it's nose under the tent, and this should raise the collective hairs on the backs of all our necks!!! DHS, by what authority I do not know has granted a temporary waiver of The Jones Act. The act that prevents Maritime Cabitoge between US Ports. The reasoning is altruistic, to provide a temporary increase in tonnage available to transport fuel & oil the the NE. However this could have long lasting unintended consequences if left unchecked/unchallenged. It's only a few degrees of seperation from our cabatage protection. Once foreign carriers/shippers get a taste of the market being withheld from them there will be a full court press to end it permanently.

Btw, what gives DHS the authority to waive an act of Congress? I'm guessing the Patriot Act (that congress rubber stamped without reading)???