Okay, you’re the boss.

David the obedient

It’s awesome to know that someone in our state offices is thinking of us for once.

Possibly. The question which comes to mind, though, is whether it is inherently a money loser or if it could be a money maker with proper upgrades. If it can’t handle containers and containers are increasingly the main way to move cargo, then switching to better loading and unloading capability for containers might bring in much more traffic and money.

If dredging could easily allow deeper draft ships access, that might make a big difference. If it couldn’t, it wouldn’t.

I know Pensacola enjoys some tax advantages because it is a port. People in Elberton, GA have in the past told us they could truck in materials cheaper if they first went to Pensacola and then back to Bluff Springs. It’s strange, but tax laws often are. Those advantages would be lost if it ceased to be a port.

Some ports have set up offshore platforms (linked to shore by pipelines) to transfer petroleum while still several miles out at sea so they don’t get caught in harbor traffic. Just for fun imagine a floating platform a mile or two out, in water plenty deep for loading and unloading freighters with a submarine umbilicus (floating tunnel going through the water rather than through soil or rock, anchored above the bottom but below ship depths) going to land to allow transfers to and fro. It would create a super deep water port. Anchoring it against hurricanes would be a job but probably not impossible.

David for better transportation

“Hundreds of jobs will be created during the engineering and construction of these projects,” Gaetz explained. “But the real economic value is in building the arteries that get products to and from market. A burst of construction getting that infrastructure in place will help our communities attract and keep growing businesses that need skilled workers for decades to come.”
Gaetz said he was told the initiative constitutes the largest single investment in our area’s transportation infrastructure in state history.

Thx Don for helping to bring our tax dollars back to the panhandle allowing our businesses to have decent infrastructure to move our employees, goods, and services. Our public roads, highways, and ports are critical to the future success of the Panhandle.