r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/Drak_is_Right 1d ago

Its hard to undersell just how big of a deal Great Lakes shipping (combined with the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri) has been for the US. You have a 600 ft. vessels nearly a thousand miles from the sea.

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u/ankhes 1d ago

I think a lot of people don’t truly understand just how massive the Great Lakes are (especially Superior and Michigan) until they see them in person. As someone who was born and raised near the Pacific and now lives less than an hour from Lake Michigan, the latter behaves shockingly similar to the former.

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u/B_Type13X2 21h ago

As the bard sang, "Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes into hours?"

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u/B_Type13X2 21h ago

1000ft + actually and have since the 60's