Posted on 05/12/2017 6:26:57 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Sad.
Whoa. What was that about? Was that sarcasm?
Who peed in your Wheaties this morning?
I wish you have a better day.
5.56mm
Grow up, dude.
“the number one export of the USA is empty shipping containers followed by containers loaded with recyclables. Sad.”
Indeed. Then they turn around, using that recycled steel, to manufacture and sell us substandard rebar and ‘deluxe 20 piece 1” drive socket sets, all for only $39.95’
Having been involved in some form of agriculture all my life, it’s disturbing to me how much of our nation’s forage crops, such as bales of alfalfa or mixed grasses, are now being shipped back to China (as well as the Middle East and Japan). Due to all the containers being returned empty, it now costs less to ship a ton of alfalfa from Long Beach to Beijing than it does to ship it from the Imperial Valley in California to the Central Valley, meanwhile all our dairy farmers and ranchers pay through the roof for that same hay. At this rate, we’ll soon be seeing cheese made in China for a lower price next to domestic cheese in our grocery stores.
“Who cares?”
It’s the answer to the:
B lack
L iberation
M ovement
Ship’em all back?
/sarc & LOL !
Not you, evidently.
Yet here you are...
Too bad we can’t fill it up with American goods to sell to the rest of the world.
China is planning a much bigger canal in Nicaragua.
I’ll believe that’s feasible when I see it.
lol
Good point about it the differences in shipping costs. It’s not just the trade imbalance that’s driving that, though. The example you cited illustrates the huge influence of economies of scale in the pricing of freight transportation.
I don’t know the engineering, but the Chinese have been in Nicaragua for years. They are providing free Chinese lessons for the ruling class and their children. The plan is to build a canal that runs from the East coast to Lake Omotempe then connect the lake with the Pacific.
There are a lot of Chinese and a lot of spreading out that they are doing globally. They are all over Africa and South America
I’m sure the Chinese would WANT to do such a thing, but I can’t envision a scenario where they could ever justify the cost of it.
The Brits used a pair of container ships as carriers for Harrier jets and helicopters during the Falklands war.
IDK. World domination?
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