It will really suck for them if a low cost fueling method makes air travel more affordable in the next hundred years....why sail when you can fly? And with drone technology what it is, we just might see pilotless cargo planes on a "truck lane" in the sky, lessening the need for port to port transport. It could turn that thing into a bit of a white elephant.

Imagine the efficiencies if goods and raw materials can be transferred from heartland to heartland instead of port to port!

n/t

The Panama Canal is too narrow and shallow and the locks too short for supertankers. It's steadily busy with smaller craft loaded with consumer goods, so there is no way to shut it down to enlarge it.

The only energy China produces itself is coal energy, and it's killing them. They desperately need a way to cut down the cost of oil and LNG transport while they wait for other energy technologies to mature.

VZ oil--actually, they are loans to be paid back in Black Gold. And they are big, big loans. A lot of VZ capacity will be heading off to China to make good on that debt.

Some people looking for jobs out of the country had talked to me about it.

federal office and you might get a second side job.