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Dude, this map proves the Port of Houston blows anything in California away. Just give it up already.
Just because you have such a long coastline does not make you important when it comes to shipping goods by sea.
How so? The line thickness for those three ports is the same. I don't understand where you are getting this from. Can you not see that the line coming out of Houston is the same size as LA and the Bay Area?
Yup, LA has the more valuable cargo and sees far more containers. It's not even close really.
Houston leads in exports which are more valuable to the economy of the U.S. You can rack up all the "value" you want with cheap Chinese imports, but what is really IMPORTANT is EXPORTS, that's what puts money in "our" bank.
Houston leads in exports which are more valuable to the economy of the U.S. You can rack up all the "value" you want with cheap Chinese imports, but what is really IMPORTANT is EXPORTS, that's what puts money in "our" bank.
True, but we're still an export juggernaut as well. LA also has that component.
Port of Los Angeles + Port of Long Beach - 131,997,860
Want me to add in San Francisco's measly little port too? Houston still dominates all 3 "juggernauts" by a large margin.
FAIL
Hell Beaumont, Texas has a larger port than Long Beach. LMAO
If I had time I'd add all of Texas' ports, but I figure whats the need by this point.
OK... but whatever the #'s are, you could not discern it from that map...The pixels are the same coming out of Houston and SF and LA, unless you think Houston is actually the Port of South Louisiana. The map only proves that you don't know how to read a map.
Im not usually a fan of New Geography because of their anti-traditional urban center slant, but this is actually a good article about how Houston and SF have both ascended to economic importance and prominence domestically and internationally, and how Houston has yet to manipulate the media to cover its rise positively the way SF has.
Ive stated this in the past, Houston and the Bay Area are both extremely important to the US maintaining its status as the world's preeminent economic superpower as well as maintaining our competitive edge over Asia and Europe.
We really are not even competing against each other. And neither is LA for that matter, as it dominates an entirely different industry all together.
Its not difficult to see how vital California and Texas are. Not difficult at all.
Houston manipulates airline magazines. I never hear about Houston until I'm in an airplane and reading stuff about Houston and their steak houses.
As much as you talk about Houston; you'd think otherwise.
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