Honolulu Needs Permaculture & Hawaii's Shipping Monopoly
The following article was emailed in letter form to all Honolulu County elected officials, Hawaii's Governor, Lt. Governor and several state legislature leaders.
http://www.hawaiilibertychronicles.com/?p=1518
The real economic battle in Hawaii is the shipping monopoly maintained in large part by a maritime regulation called the Jones Act. We are currently at the point in Hawaii where 90% of our consumable are shipped in from California. The following article addresses this issue.
http://www.hawaiilibertychronicles.com/?p=151
These two issues are closely related as the shipping monopoly has suffocated agricultural productivity to it's benefit at the expense of Hawaii consumers paying higher costs for produce as well as all consumables in general.
