The East Coast is already pretty much tied up in properties the public wants to keep that way ~ and eminent domain won't change a thing ~ since most of those properties are already owned by the government.
The politics of things won't even let the oil fields off the coast of Florida be tapped, nor windfarms be set out off Cape Cod.
The West coast is also tied up.
Expansion can take place in Mexico with little impact on anybody.
So, land can be taken for condos, but not for ports?
I’ve seen nothing that says our existing west coast ports couldn’t be expanded, or modernized. We have quite a few and they are already receiving cargo from Asia.
This is like the rhetoric surrounding immigration proposals: don’t believe a word anyone says. What can be done about improving expanding existing ports and building new ones needs to be studied by independent parties.
Not buying these blanket dismissals from people who desire to see the cargo come through Mexico.
Expansion can take place in Mexico with little impact on anybody.
The Texas Gulf Coast and LA I’d guess are looking forward to any expansion of the Panama Canal as that will let the larger container vessels into the Gulf. Walmart has already built a 4 million sq. ft. distribution facility in Houston that imports up to 28% of their Asian goods via the Panama Canal on smaller ships with an added 3000 mile shipping distance. But it has cut days off their ontime destination delivery to their retail outlets. The strike at the West Coast ports during the Christmas season of I think 2002 causesd Walmart to rethink their importation system and Houston was the benefactor.
Think Prince Rupert and you’ll find a new facility in British Columbia being built to bring in Asian goods. This is the deepest port on the Continent and the northern rail head of the Canadian rail system. Memphis here we come.