White House Open to Use of Foreign Ships to Ease Fuel Crunch
- 101-year-old Jones Act requires U.S.-built and -crewed vessels
- American tankers cost more to rent than foreign counterparts
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The Biden administration is open to waiving domestic shipping restrictions to allow foreign tankers to transport fuel to areas with shortages due to the Colonial Pipeline Co. outage, the White House said Wednesday.
The 101-year-old Jones Act requires that ships carrying goods between U.S. ports be built and flagged in the U.S. as well as crewed by American workers. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the government would consider waiver requests, but stopped short of saying the administration would grant them.