answer:The fact that Obama hasn’t made an exemption here of the Jones act is mind boggling to me! This is hurting us more than BP’ bungling of the containing of the leak. We have an entire fleet of state of the art oil containment ships wanting to help out that are sitting in their ports of call from countries like Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Russia etc. that are expert at oil spill recovery and cannot pitch in all because of this Jones Act BS!! Repeal it or execute an executive order now Mr. President!! HS this is nuts!!