Elon Musk: "I'll Show You Mexico's $4.5BN Panama Canal Rival!"

Elon Musk: "I'll Show You Mexico's $4.5BN Panama Canal Rival!"
The Panama Canal is a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. It is owned and administered by Panama, and it is forty miles long from shoreline to shoreline. Ships can cross going in either direction, and it takes about ten hours to get from one side to the other. Ships from any country are treated equally with respect to conditions of passage and tolls.
Before the Panama Canal was built, ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the American continents had to go around Cape Horn in South America, a voyage that was some eight thousand nautical miles longer then going through the canal and that took about two months to complete. All journeys between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are shortened by thousands of nautical miles by going through the canal.
But a new rival has now arrived that threatens to put the Panama Canal out of business. Keep watching as Elon Musk shows Mexico’s four billion, five hundred million dollar Panama Canal Rival! Trust me, you do not want to miss this.

[@jawsrus127]

My great-grandfather was one of the U.S. Army engineers that worked as part of the personnel that built it, held the rank of CPT. He came down with yellow fever during his tour and was sent to Ft. Sam Houston to be treated, only to pass away from complications. He is buried in the Army’s Ft. Sam Houston cemetery. He gave all to build that canal…

[@kflashcarr1992]

I hope that it returns under U.S. management.

[@susanlong8978]

Thank you for your service 💜🇺🇸💜

[@kenoscreams5110]

And a democrat gave it away

[@peterfesta7715]

@jawsrus127 God Bless him and keep his memories alive 🙏

[@davidhennen7045]

@@kenoscreams5110 Republicans give away trillions, and trillions, to billionaires all the time in tax cuts, free-stuff!!!😂😂 Here is the reason we had to. There's a lot to read so ask a friend to help you, un-der-stand! history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/panama-canal

[@RussellOsborne-mh6ck]

It's f***** up in this movie that they're not telling that we paid for all this

[@bother1844]

Well think about this, Panama just invested 1 billion dollars within their territory, How stupid are we assuming that investing in someone else (territory) property, gives us the right to claim their land without a purchase note? You do know that, underneath that water, is land holding it up, belonging to Panama. Just saying, common sense. The real issue is that The USA is being charged unfairly for using the canal. Simple as that. Just watch how fast the prices will go down. Trump puts fear against those trying to take advantage of our system. It's all about $$$$$$$$$ This president is not like Biden. He works for the commonwealth of our country to make America great again.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

And you recouped it handsomely in the 60 years it was operated by USA, while giving Panama peanuts. The Canal returned to Panama was already obsolete since the 1950s. Panama spent US$6B to expand the Canal, adding a new set of locks and enlarging the waterways. It wa paid for with loans from international loans, $0 from US taxpayers.

[@Manuel-eg2to]

Wow I hear that🤭​@@JavierPerez-gg7pf

[@joeshittheragman3512]

@@JavierPerez-gg7pf 36,000 people died building it how about THAT cost.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

@joeshittheragman3512 could you explain what is your source for that figure? Historians put that figure as 27k lives at most when you add the French canal deaths to the US construction period, and of those, only 350 were US citizens.

[@robertstane5823]

How could you not include Teddy Roosevelt and the 38,000 Americans who died to finally build the Panama Canal? And the treaty that Panama has broken.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

Because 38k Americans did not die to build the Canal, only 350. Tje Feench killed 22k and the US construction killed 5k aprox, mostly Caribbean laborers. And Panama has not broken the Neutrality treaty, and is unlikely to do it, what makes you think so?

[@robertstane5823]

@@JavierPerez-gg7pf What is your source of information about the history of the canal?

[@creationsFREEMAN]

@@robertstane5823 simply google it or copilot or claude. or wiki. it ain't no secret.

[@petermartell568]

How did Panama breach any treaty?

[@tdvanwinkle]

@@JavierPerez-gg7pf 38k and 350 are both numbers one would come up with after using the crack pipe. About 6k Americans would probably be a closer number. 10s 0f thousands were probably debilitated for life from diseases.

[@comatose3788]

You're first point at 0:30 (with a bit of biased) is wrong. United States built the Panama Canal. "Fair" in this case would be preferential treatment.

[@tomrausch7014]

You are NUTS if you think that unloading a whole container ship, loading the containers on a train, moving that train across Mexico to the ocean, unloading train and then loading all the containers on a different container ship is gonna make much of a dent in the Panama Canal’s business……well that’s CRAZY.

[@torrypedersen903]

All know hes nuts.😊

[@jesussalas9262]

We're not told the whole truth. They don't load and unload trains. An innovative method is being used. Investigate.

[@JDDees]

@@torrypedersen903 YES YOU ARE... too bad you have none.

[@j.l.daltoin2238]

IT COULD HAVE EFFECT IF SOME BOYCOTT AND TAKE TRAIN TO FORCE THEM TO REDUCE THEIR PRICES BECAUSE IT WOULD COST THE BUREAUCRATS DEEPLY ON SPLITTING MONEY UP LOL

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

​@@jesussalas9262They told me they are loading the whole ship on a train😅

[@markusjanssen8248]

What about Musk? Doesn’t really appear despite the headline

[@JDDees]

CLICKBAIT as usual

[@upnorthyooper1196]

Unsubscribe

[@thisvagabondlife7132]

Thanks for mentioning that

[@DanielMata6282]

Thanks, i stopped watching as soon as i saw your comment.

[@6ftS]

click-bullshit

[@robertbrouillette6767]

We already have an alternative to the Panama Canal. It started back in the late 1980s when APL built C 10 container ships in Germany. They were too big for the Panama Canal. The locks are 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide. It’s called the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach where containers go onto railcars and head across the U S. The only thing that holds it back is limitation to how many ships can enter the port.

[@johammy]

How do they get to California?????

[@robertbrouillette6767]

@@johammy The container ships made the trip from Germany to the U S west coast via the Suez Canal and were for the Pacific Rim Trade. Thirty five day trip: Seattle, Dutch Harbor, Yokohama, Kobe, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Yan Tuen, Seattle. Later they started leaving west coast to Asia, India, via the Suez to Europe and east coast. Then the reverse back to the west coast. I was on the President Kennedy when we had pictures and items from the Kennedy Library. I’ve been through the Panama Canal a gazillion times on coastwise tankers and freighters. Aircraft carriers use the Suez.

[@johammy]

@@robertbrouillette6767 ty for the info!!!

[@lilolmecj]

This is a very stupid comment. I’m sorry, but it is. Yes, using the rail system to move things into the interior is a very important part of the inter-modal system, but aboard ships, floating across the big blue wet thing, the ocean, remains the most efficient way to move large amounts of goods. The rail system is an essential part of the supply CHAIN, it cannot replace another link.

[@helenscoffield]

America has two coasts from the top of the world to the bottom. Plan your shipping. Buy local.

[@brianrector9791]

IT IS NOT OWNED BY PANAMA!!!!!!! IN ORDER FOR PANAMA TO GAIN ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM COLOMBIA THEY AGREED TO THE CANAL ZONE "IN PERPETUITY" WHERE THE CANAL IS LOCATED. Panama is a sovereign country, but the Canal Zone is an International Waterway FOREVER. Panama was given the chance to manage the canal by treaty and now is being "investigated" to ascertain whether Panama has surrendered canal management to Communist China. The US is by far the largest investor in the canal with Japan and the EU. Panama will never "OWN" this International Waterway. Perhaps it is time for an International Management Company to manage the canal with Board members from those nations which have provided the investments to maintain and improve the canal

[@danielrumbo343]

No panamenian sing the perpetual agreement for your knowledge was a french engineer Frank B V. Thats the reason they have to do a real Agreement in with US. Use FOR FREE fresh water from a Panamenian river, land, ports , railway, 🚃 military base for free for 100 years. In international lawsuits US. Know that eventually they will lost in an international court thats why they rush and dit the REAl agreement…

[@JDDees]

@@danielrumbo343 TYPICAL MENTALLY CHALLENGED SIMPLETON!

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

First. The Panama Canal is Panamanian and nobody elses. Second, non of those "investors" invested on its expansion, it was all on the Panama Canal money. Third, no one but Panama controls and manage (admirably, many have said) the Canal.

[@danielrumbo343]

@JDDees is not my opinion is a fact

[@danielrumbo343]

@JDDees lets says that’s just happen in panama 🇵🇦 only but guess what is happening everywhere including US. China owns more land in US. More than any latinamerica country. China controls more than 70% of the merchandise on every us port… im sorry buddy but those are facts

[@pvjung]

Thanks!

[@Zzb09nAgcpo]

Your a w

[@DanHicks-m7c]

Jimmy Carter forgot about American lives and labor.

[@Rafaelperez-sp3gs]

How much USA paid for the land?

[@barenekid9695]

@@Rafaelperez-sp3gs The Land Panama STOLE from the Natives ???

[@barenekid9695]

Dimmy Carter was a Dim Twit. .. period.

[@howardking3601]

Jimmy Carter was one of our worst presidents, a total globalist. He did more to weaken our country than anyone else, until Obama and Biden.

[@Mdoyle1972]

Carter is now dead and burning in hell. Panama won’t let him use the canal for free so he will suffer for eternity.

[@brettmurphy8715]

Hello, locks are used to get over the hilly area in central area of isthmus.. Panama cities have always taken fresh water from the lakes,, Panama has made many improvements to the canal and canal infrastructure.. Many families from several countries have lost loved ones in the building of the canal, sadly.. Rainfall has been in short erratic last couple of years. This has caused a slowing down of ships able to transit.. Panama has built infrastructure to help recycyle water.. This is a very different canal than the Suez Canal..because of geography.. Prices for transit are based on vessel size, tonnage.. in that respect same for all.. Respect for all involved, the building of, management and treaties, and ongoing planning and operations..

[@luluwinke6581]

they are already short on water....another canal wouldn't balance any problem(S)........they would be competing for the depth w/for/not hitting bottom....

[@petersnushall7293]

Be quiet! You speak too much sense for average 'Murican minds to comprehend! Logic, facts, and common sense is beyond their ken.

[@gloucesterjet1]

More canals or intermodal links to rival the existing Panama Canal is a good thing for the whole world and for Panama too.

[@MichaelRivera-zj8rc]

What seems to be forgotten are all the Americans that died,families that were affected by the deaths and the tax payers that paid for it. Enough of countries taking advantage of America and its families seriously.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

350 US citizens only out of 5k dead during the US construction. During the French construction over 20k perished

[@lidiyasimatovic1118]

And America manages this canal for 100 years - THAT WAS AGRIMENT.

[@ireneaguilar5083]

America took advantage of Mexico.

[@kerstinengelhardt1993]

You are all so uneducated. Nobody wants anything from the US. Made in America always led us to buy Other cars or motorcycles...that's no trademark it's a warning for bad quality.

[@danieloehler2494]

What seems to be forgotten are all the non US-citizens that died, families that were affected by the deaths because of US interventions and the resources that have been plundered by US companies. Enough of US Americans taking advantage of other countries and their families seriously.

[@KookooKal-fz2fz]

If you ask me, we own it! Technically, and how 1 guy can give it away is crazy. Which leads to my next opinion. No money or big decisions without the tax payers vote, anything to do with tax payers money should be voted on by the tax payers/citizens if they are getting money from us, (other countries)I understand the whole we voted in people to make decisions but they can do exactly that for their states. They have to get our permission for money going to any country. They can decide to spend the tax money in their district's only! A total vote for any money/devastation or humanity crap they call it which will from here out be loans! NO FREE MONEY FROM US! I NEVER AGREED TO GIVING ANYONE OTHER THEN OUR OWN CITIZENS FREE MONEY! That right their would put us in a plus and no negative in our deficit! Loans, Loans, loans! Just like the British had to pay us back for war2.

[@genebohannon8820]

We have too many ignorant votes. Pure democracy takes too long to implement that is why America is a Constitutional Republic

[@phuongdinh3123]

this video did not telling the truth. It omitted the sacrify of Americans in the building process.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

350 US dead only. Compare to 22k aprox during the French construction and the 5K who died during the US construction, mostly Caribbean workers.

[@WillyMcCoy50]

​@JavierPerez-gg7pf of thr 55,000 U.S. workers on the canal 5,600 died. One in ten workers.

[@stfuplsok]

*sacrifices

[@eivarmorales407]

Whats your source ? Trumps bs?

[@JessePollardII]

EVERYBODY seems to forget the FRENCH deaths involved.

[@EdwardCavalucci]

Amen America 🇺🇸 we all know who's incharge,France has alot to benefit from farmers USA 🇺🇸 😀 😉 ❤🎉

[@GentlemanH]

So where is the proposal of Elon Musk? Not mentioned. Click bait headlines? 😦

[@mil546]

It cost "$375 million The total cost of building the Panama Canal was approximately $375 million, including $10 million paid to Panama and $40 million paid to the French company. It was considered the most expensive construction project in U.S. history at that time" Not counting the loss of life due to tropical diseases.

[@gary.richardson]

There is a mountain range that runs diagonally between Oaxaca and Veracruz that runs between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Whether a ship sized rail line or a canal is built across the shortest pointa or along the mountain range, it is worth considering the pros and cons of each. Yes, the mountain range path is longer and may have other obstacles that prevent it going forward, there are hidden benefits to having less sun exposure during the afternoon/evening and access to rock for construction very close by. On close study, utilizing a hillside can help not only costs but also reduce time to completion in some areas. If I'm a tourist (canal option) on a cruise ship. Then, travelling across this shaded section would be preferable to me than the open sun and it is much easier to turn sections of a mountainside into rainforest than it is to do so in the open sun.

[@david-c6u7p]

IT IS RUN BY CHINESE COMPANIES IN OTHER WORDS THE CHINESE. AGREEMENTS MADE AND BROKEN

[@ovidiuszimberman20]

Do you know who's running our ports?

[@hackman669]

@@ovidiuszimberman20 China, Arabs or European companies!

[@lyft4238]

Yes

[@e2dwf976]

America 🇺🇸 needs to take back

[@spencerlucas3065]

This sounds like Chinese propaganda? Certainly doesn't sound in anyway positive in any way to the 38 thousand American lives lost during its construction or the fact that America paid for it!

[@sdavidpringle]

It pays to skip the first 95%, if you already know the history of the Panama canal and opened this to understand the title.

[@bartsiegwart2996]

EITHER TAKE BACK THE CANAL OR BUILD A NEW ONE AND PUT IT OUT OF BUSINESS.

[@barneyrice8502]

Great Idea And We Need To get It Done Before CHUNA Totally Owns this Canal Thanks To Panama's Back Stabbing Dealings With China Against The Efforts Of The United States. China Has Always been A Back Stabber To America Moving IN Quietly With Their Under The Table Millions And Sometimes Billions Lining The Pockets OF Countries WE Thought We Could trust Only To Find Out ?They WERE CLOSET ENEMIES OF OUR COUNTRY ALL TOGETHER

[@virginiaarrieta8145]

Build a new canal and problem solved

[@quickdeuce]

@@virginiaarrieta8145 LOL,, perfect solution. Go ahead Panama,, YOU build a new canal on YOUR dime and YOUR lives. Then tell the world the old canal will no longer receive water thereby rendering it CLOSED. All shipments wanting access to the new canal WILL PAY whatever amount Panama asks - or go around. Problem solved! LOL,, love it.

[@goldgeologist5320]

The problem is that canals are massive water users. Need a canal that does not waste water.

[@allanboyer2769]

@@goldgeologist5320 You have the two biggest puddles of water in the world on either end.

[@UncleJunior52]

The cost to cross the Panama Canal varies greatly depending on the size of the vessel, with smaller boats paying a few thousand dollars while large cargo ships and cruise liners can face transit fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars; typically, a container ship might pay between $60,000 and $300,000 to cross the canal.

[@winniepoyser7164]

🙏❤️🌻🙏❤️🌻🙏❤️🌻IT IS IMPORTANT TO RELEASE THE TRUTH AND TELL THE WORLD AND LET MORE PEOPLE KNOW..👍👍👍👌👌👌✌️✌️✌️

[@armandogarcia1732]

It's not about being out of business, but rather about embracing genuine authority and understanding.

[@ajh6354]

Panama could not pay their loans to the big banks. Carter gave Panama the canal and associated tolls so they could pay back their loans. It was a bank bailout.

[@melazaconsabor2028]

🇺🇸🇵🇷 Panama canal was built for Puerto Rico infrastructure. Starkit, Chips, Pharma, clothing. 65 infantry protected the construction.

[@patriciacolon5979]

I recall Buffalo NY being very thriving port in 1950's-1960's bordering Canada area. That could be brought back. In addition the Maine area of the coast also has very good potential for ship ports. I'm in my late 60's & I recall enjoying watching ships dock unload & reloading was sometimes! There were many factories along that foot of Ferry port.

[@JessePollardII]

The problem is crossing the continent not the ports.

[@dougbates8018]

The alternative project across Mexico uses twice as many ships (ships coming to and leaving the Atlantic port, and ships coming to and leaving the Pacific port), and several trains per ship-load of containers. It also requires time-consuming and expensive quadruple handling of all shipping containers on each journey. Passage of goods takes much longer and is more expensive than shipping through the Panama Canal, therefore it is not economically viable, except as a surplus carrier when Panama can’t handle all the traffic. It is not a viable route for an alternative canal, because the isthsmus at this part is 150 miles across with a broad watershed higher than 200m above sea level. An alternative new Canal across Nicaragua could be viable, perhaps, with a longer crossing but similar construction to Panama Canal.

[@azazel_5319]

The vikings were well known for transporting ships across relatively short strips of land long before the conquistadors came on the scene.

[@tjmcguire9417]

Very well done. Thank you. I do find it fascinating that in this age of 'global warming'; where sea levels are supposed to be rising at unprecedented rates - 2 things stand out. The Maldives are still above water and the Panama Canal does not have enough water. Curious to say the least. Reason it out. What does stand to reason is that more options (to traverse Central America with cargo), beats one option every time.

[@The1ByTheSea]

The Mexican port everything has to be unloaded from the ship to the train; and then loaded back from the train to the ship. In Panama, every thing stays on the ship:no loading up and onloading .

[@JDDees]

NOTHING wrong with that... it'll created more needed jobs and still cost less.

[@barneyrice8502]

@JDDees we will see on this but it will create more jobs for the locals

[@The1ByTheSea]

@ what about the time and cost factor ?

[@Fernando-d7i2u]

No wonder you didn't get hired for engineering ,you have no clue

[@The1ByTheSea]

@ okay, the technology is has to be there: one of the mian things is that Mexico needs to become a tech leader. Their are many capable Mexican people : Tec of Monterrey,etc . ;and then are you saying that Mexico has the large amount of workforce ;to create jobs for the Mexican people;to stay in Mexico and to not leave ?

[@harryb8012]

It can never be the same as the canal as far as security of the goods en route. Imagine the cartel holding your containers hostage and thus running up insurance rates 😮

[@conniewlliams4382]

PRESIDENT TRUMP, FIGHTING!!! ELON, FIGHTING!!! HEAVENLY FATHER BLESS AMERICA!!!

[@albertmarnell9976]

Prices rising, homeless dying. You are so brainwashed. You can't MAGA because America never was great.

[@jesussalas9262]

This is not Jesus teaching!

[@albertmarnell9976]

You are naive, vulnerable, suggestible, impressionable, gullible, emotional...need more adjectives? BTW, there is no god. I went to 12 years of intense Christian schools and studied my ass off.

[@ruthiesmith6770]

THERE IS A GOD , FATHER GOD AND THE

[@JDDees]

@@albertmarnell9976 YOU ARE A DIMWITTED FOOL!

[@robertortega385]

Elon Musk is a genius he knows how to be a great inovator electric car rockets and saterlite Internet give the man credit he's a businessman and a great business man 😊

[@howardking3601]

False advertising. Trades on Musk's name, but it has nothing to do with him. Obvious bias pervades. Nevertheless, for a newcomer to this subject, much can be learned.

[@65clm]

💯

[@rayamundson8394]

THEY NEED TO dig the rock and sand out deeper in the area so that there is NO NEED FOR locks. IT NEEDS to ALSO be wider and deeper so that ships can pass by each other with ease. They need a joint effort from other countries to fund the work needed to make the canal.

[@tdvanwinkle]

Drought doesn't make ocean levels drop. They need to reengineer to use all ocean water when there is drought

[@HansJansen-q7l]

Maybe when the oceans rise there won't be any more droughts! LOL I won't hold my breath for that to happen.

[@tdvanwinkle]

@ I know right. I will panic when top Dem party officials start selling their coastal and island properties.

[@TBird1960]

The locks operate with fresh water, not ocean water.

[@JessePollardII]

@@TBird1960 Any other water used has to be pumped uphill as well.

[@LiddieJane]

Why would Asia import to west coast through the canal? Asia is directly across Pacific from the west coast?

[@reesejabs1895]

They already can't fit ships like oil supertankers through. It's useful, but not as vital as it used to be.

[@samuelhshoemaker5541]

With today's technology. Why can't they use the water from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to operate the canal?

[@JessePollardII]

lake contamination, corrosion, and the cost of replacing the locks, pumps, and plumbing.

[@carlosderegil8674]

I’m from Mexico and it was said that the Tehuantepec project is intended only as compliment for the canal , not as competition or alternate . It’s impossible to beat the canal . Now , it’s very feasible that China will dig more on the Nicaraguas project .

[@JoJoUK2000]

What amazed me was to learn (at 30m 55s) that the Panama Canal transports goods worth 270 dollars per year . . . WOW!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 He must be talking about the model canal in his bath! 😆😅🥳

[@jimbolast1313]

With... Goods going to 170 countries... Well, that averages over a dollar per country.😂

[@ap0lmc]

I don't know why people fail to talk about the Northern Shipping Route above Canada around Greenland which is way shorter than the Panama Canal. Sure you need ice breakers and warmer weather but it's happening soon. SpaceX soon could be more efficient to transport cargo as well. The Spaceship Elon keeps building gets bigger and bigger and eventually can replace cargo ships.

[@mikehillman6487]

We need Elon musk to help Texas with their property tax bill this is where Elon can really shine although not that you don't already but yeah this whole text thing is crazy we need to stop this over taxation immediately

[@davidpandone4944]

It sounds as if it's a unique opportunity to introduce a one-to-many shipping option since unloading a ship on the initial side and reloading a ship on the destination side would be requisite. A large ship with many containers destined for many different ports could unload on the initial side, and shipping containers could be aportioned to many smaller ships on the destination side each destined for a separate and unique ports, taking advantage of the opportunity and necessity to unload and reload on either side.

[@onYaFace2023]

0:18 as a former worker in the paname canal... just at the beginning of this vid... i can tell you're wrong and bias... some ships dont pass right away , besides traffic they also have to be wondering around for issues that has to do with payments.... panama has been sneaky for the past 5-10 years

[@nigelgunn_W8IFF]

A tunnel through the mountains would only require one lock. We have that capability.

[@shovelover]

we support our president -

[@vjmccormack]

Ship to train to ship is perhaps better than the going around (the cape of good hope) dangerous. Not to mention costs

[@yusufsharma7061]

Our president is doing great

[@JNLeanos]

He is an idiot

[@bobbrown5951]

You're not paying attention. He's a disaster. Stop watching Faux,

[@gregwilliams7210]

Both systems would be a boon to trade and both would be needed. There is room for both systems to exist. The canal would be faster for sure,

[@GeorgeMarmarokopos]

Build a railway NEXT TO the Panama Canal. It will be 50 miles more or less, no mountains and port infrastructure exist in both sides… 33:54

[@WilliamTobias-u4r]

I guess they have roads that go along at anyhow so why not put Railways in there that is very sensible。 But Veracruz in Oaxaca sounds interesting also I have traveled all that distance several times。 That would be very strategic to America

[@captainsalty9022]

There is a rail line in Panama.

[@edslechta3994]

From a cost perspective, it may be better to double your railroad in Panama rather than build a new canal, which is gonna be much much much more costly

[@winniepoyser7164]

🙏❤️🌻GOD BLESS TRUMP AND ELON WITH POWER AND STRENGTH, FAITH, VISION AND MISSION TO BATTLE AGAINST THE INVADERS, DESTROYERS, CONTROLLERS AND MANIPULATORS. TO GET BACK OUR JUSTICE.

[@hollisterab]

Elon is not my president!

[@azmiam1972]

Why would Mexico allow US companies build canal on their land?

[@petetomiello4103]

The canal may need to be modified, soon, in order to stay functional. Can Panama afford Billions of dollars to do this?

[@jesussalas9262]

@@petetomiello4103 the us can't. It has a huge, unplayable debt with China.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

Panama afforded the 6 Billions investment for the latest espansion 2007 to 2016. It will afford the next one any time it deems it necessary.

[@Manuel-eg2to]

​@@jesussalas9262got that right

[@barneyrice8502]

no they really can not do this with out a bail out from what looks like their big chum CHINA and you can bet if offered CHINA WILL JUMP ON THIS QUICK TO OWN THIS CANAL CHINA WOULD START A WAR

[@davissampson3991]

Of course not! They expect the US to take care of it for them!

[@imnobody0034]

Personally I think it's time to look into the Star Trek style transporters, for material good transfers. If I say it someone will build it.

[@fesenal9818]

Yes, so far so good, keep praying for our brilliant leader President Trump and his administration for their bright ideas. All gas, no breaks to accomplished the bright agendas!!!

[@59jm24]

Vast ideas with half vast plans.

[@christophergodfrey4939]

Just imagine if our forefathers had access to the equipment, accommodation & Sanitary facilities, technology etc that we have today, they wouldn't hesitate in building another alternative canal, people today have no vision for the future and theres an excuse for everything. Those who came before us do not get near the credit they should for what they achieved, all taken for granted.

[@stevengill1736]

I loved passing through the Big Ditch, and that was before the Panamax upgrade...I got to swim in Gatun Lake one trip when we anchored there waiting for our slot descending the eastern locks. Hot as hell there, but beautiful cool water to swim in. One trip was in the evening so folks not on duty got to enjoy the sunset as the ship moved through the still night. Sometimes we'd anchor off Panama City in the stand by for traversing the first locks - pretty wild town, but relatively safe compared to Balboa, the town on the east end of the canal. The captain wouldn't even let us visit - we were confined to the ship for our own protection. The east coast down there is known for piracy, kidnapping, all sorts of rough stuff. I liked the capital - it had lots of stores, nice clubs and bars, though they're pretty wild too!

[@zedostenso3069]

I think you are mixing up Balboa with Colon.

[@miguelmusa67]

Population increases, trade increases, new alternative is welcome to avoid more delays

[@madkingeric9669]

I support President Trump 100%

[@59jm24]

Your King... of BS and bankruptcies.

[@JessePollardII]

That is being rather stupid - like trump is.

[@Antiguanian]

Make several routes! Different lengths of time are different prices, and there are plenty of ships waiting

[@sailorichiban]

OVERCHARGING ON THE PANAMA CANAL HAS BEEN A PROBLEM SINCE CARTER’S BLUNDERS.

[@shellseachic5840]

This is not true. Sorry.

[@SUGARlea11]

Sponsored by Ford, that tells you everything.

[@ericashmusic8889]

The Canal was built by the American Army around 1904 -1914 ( Check it out) & the USA was granted full access & rights...so what happened with regard to that signed agreement ?

[@JessePollardII]

Trump is violating it. As I remember, it was for a limited time, when time ran out it was returned to Panama.

[@Antiguanian]

The Panamanians broke the treaty. They let Chyna take it over. Now it's a security issue, ​@@JessePollardII

[@federic1470]

Olvida un pequeño detalle, y es que en el canal de Panamá ya existe un ferrocarril interoceánico y por lejos mucho más corto que el de México y, por tanto, más barato.

[@RobertWyrick-ys1zs]

You didn't talk about the emerging routes on the north side of North America, Europe, and Russia. Also, why was the Nicaraguan route chosen ahead of the Panama route in some of the early studies?

[@JDDees]

Flatter than the mountainous Panama route they took.

[@jonascreations2119]

That railway project in Mexico is just like giving easy money to Mexico's Cartels who control those places where the railway will pass through...

[@dshogan6174]

Horse shit no way an overland route is even in the universe of ecomimicly viable compared to a water canal. Monumental BS post

[@josecarlosespinosa7965]

I'd be concerned with the corruption present in the country, regarding cartels and any groups wanting to "disrupt" flow, or sabotage the routes. It's alot of real estate to keep safe!

[@macyklesiewylie1816]

I don't know why these people are so obsessed with the Panama canal. That's Panama not nobody else . People want the canal because of the money that's All and also power. Panama has expanded the canal themselves and cost them millions of dollars . So they don't owe anybody no money so is the truth. Whoever tried to claim the Panama canal is kind of ignorant.

[@TheLookoutGuy]

"It's logical to build another canal, Captain Kirk." - Spock

[@sjm2is4ra6el]

If it started in 1999 with a 25 year contract, then the contract has expired. So it's up "For Grabs"? Yes, no?

[@NadalHector]

No.

[@thomasdoering7098]

It actually started the first day of the Year 2000.

[@PeterR-f9p]

Buying a Tesla is like buying a Mercedes during WWII

[@DianaSolabo-q4p]

All because of America Panama was born.

[@JessePollardII]

yup - by formenting a revolution to create Panama.

[@texasgrillchef8581]

The railway could never compete fully with the Panama Canal because of the limitations.

[@tamina12950]

Old video, the Interoceanic Corridor railway got started last year.

[@mark12795]

People do realize that Elon / Space X catches rocket boosters that are returning back to earth in a pair of loving arms after traveling several thousand MPH. Any Idea how many stories tall they are? They are HUGE, Look up the size before you doubt this man. Have you ever seen the new automated shipping ports? I know he can be off sometimes but somehow he always makes things work.

[@JessePollardII]

That is a major difference between trump and Musk. Trump can't even make things work. which is why he has 6 bankrupt companies so far, and working on bankrupting an entire country.

[@nelsonhang274]

I support president Trump

[@Donnie.Estrada-Troetsch]

AMAZING! great job! If you are an intelligent investor for sure will choose same Panama to do an alternative dry canal, why not?

[@jimparr01Utube]

What I do not understand is why simple (but admittedly huge) pumps cannot be used to transfer salt water between locks. Because if this is done, Gatun lake could be bypassed and then used by the local population as normal (probably important). Yes, a massive project to do this, but it could save the panama canal from becoming a failed legacy in the near future - climate change coupled with increasing traffic density. Such a pity that the almost trivial nominal difference in East and West ocean heights could not be sorted with a single pair of locks. Back then, the vision was correct - the technology to achieve it was not there because of the gigantic excavation of earth required to accomplish it. I believe this is no longer true today.

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

The problem is salinization of Gatun Lake, which is a fresh water source not only for the Canal but to the two cities at both ends of the Canal. Each time you open the lock door separating Gatun lake from the Canal Locks system you are mixing the water inside the lock with Gatun Lake water. If there is salt inside the lock, then it will slowly seep into the lake turning it into a salt water lake.

[@JessePollardII]

@@JavierPerez-gg7pf There is also the corrosion of the pumps, and the cost of pumping. Right now the canal is powered by the lake water for the most part.

[@iliasstavropoulos6726]

TRUMP will find a way to fix all this.....

[@ThingsPeopleNeedToKnow]

lol that's funny! He don't know where he's at half of the time. NO one has every talked about this before until Nut-Job started talking about it.

[@hackman669]

@@ThingsPeopleNeedToKnow Yep, Darth Kylo Trump wants his canal back! hehe

[@59jm24]

Yes, like his 6 or was it 7 bankruptcies

[@allanhwhite.kineticmobiles]

Fix? Seriously?

[@donaldphillips2648]

It would seem that two canals would be significantly more useful and beneficial than just the Panama Canal and its susceptibility to the changes in usefulness because of droughts, crowding and other factors determining its usefulness coefficient. Two canals would also keep costs down. It is also imperative that China never be allowed to control any aspect of the Panama Canal or any other potential canals in the area!

[@jezedwards3858]

Seems Trump is always right, America have been subsidising these countries for decades and most of them haven’t been keeping up with their dues including Europe. It is weird how many don’t seem to understand the simple concept of “pay your bills”. Similar to the concept of “I don’t want criminals in my home”. Great job Donald, keep up the good work.

[@JessePollardII]

Trump doesn't pay his OWN bills. declares bankruptcy instead.

[@rickpark291]

Good! Put them out of business Elon!!

[@jon5045]

Sad thing is I lived there in the Mid 80s, Nothing but good memories there! I even want to retire there. It has gone downhill in a crazy way! The people of Panama are amazing people. China is running it into the ground!

[@j.l.daltoin2238]

SO in my opinion the U.S needs to take it back over and give money out equally to its citizens instead of its politicians and place the elected ones on a salary and budget that can be checked by its citizens approval and for our payment let our military thru without charging or at reduced rate since we would be protecting them also

[@JavierPerez-gg7pf]

The US Navy already crosses the Panama Canal at very low prices (25 millions since 2000) and theybhave priority over any other ship passing through the Canal.

[@barneyrice8502]

@@JavierPerez-gg7pf GOOD TO HEAR THAT NEWS AND IT AS IT SHOULD BE OUR MILITARY HAVING PRIORITY OVER OTHER SHIPS

[@LKN4WAR]

5,609 US CItizens officially died during the construction of the Panama Canal according to U.S. records, many historians argue that this number does not fully capture the extent of human loss associated with this monumental undertaking.

[@RubenQuiroga-n5m]

Late news China project 10 factory park and super ships and building one biggest shipping ports north Americans 200 miles north inter ocean shipping read projects

[@jonboltz]

Having Options benefits ALL

[@jamesanagnos6123]

for starters we want 50 tons of panama red marijuana every year lol

[@dennisstorie4604]

Can you imagine Musk investing into the Mexican version. Fafo Panama

[@davissampson3991]

I don’t understand why another canal through a third world banana republic is in the US’s interest. It seems to me that Elon Musk should be given the task to come up with a new and innovative approach that involves two US ports connected by rail. However, given the proclivities of the PRK (People’s Republik of Kalifornien), even a Kalifornien port held hostage by labor unions is not an ideal solution! Even the blue cesspools of Oregon and Washington make them unreliable partners. Historically speaking, Carter’s ‘gift’ of Panama to a military dictator was the second biggest failure of this term (let’s not forget the Iranian Hostage crisis in 1979).

[@ger279]

THE U.S. IS A THIRD WORLD !! THE RICHEST THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC HEADED BY A WANNABE DICTATOR. WHO RULES UNEDUCATED PEONS LIKE YOU AMERICANS

[@Bob-v8m]

Jimmy should have stayed on his peanut farm...

[@carolekjellander8917]

I wouldn't expect a guitar player to be such a hater. The blue states are beautiful, peaceful, cultural and productive. If you think Elon Musk is capable of doing good and helping humans, you really are lost.

[@davissampson3991]

What makes you think that I am a guitar player? Having lived and worked in several blue states, I certainly do not agree with your glowing characterization.

[@carolekjellander8917]

@@davissampson3991 It's a mystery to me, in the midst of a hostile takeover of our government by Musk randomly destroying as many of our social safety nets and rule of law checks on abuse of power, why you would trust Musk's good will, competence to improve anything vs. wantonly destroy everything. I hope you are informing yourself about what is happening.

[@Frankrizzo619]

Just build a canal on the southern border next to the wall it will be duel purpose being a moat as well

[@MrSpiderwebber]

Stay strong Panama don't let them win

[@kenoscreams5110]

They didn't build it or pay for it

[@THEeeCOBRACOMMANDER]

Correct. Just like certain toll roads. Some are owned by a private company.. Some aren’t..

[@homeremedies4853]

What Is More económic. 180 miles of railroad or 50 miles railroad in Panamá Isthmus ?

[@JessePollardII]

That depends on the terrain. panama has rather high mountains to get over. And that tends to make 180 miles of railroad much cheaper to use and maintain.

[@jackvoss5841]

That quickly shown portrait of President Grant, looks an awfully lot like Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain. Twain aided Grant in writing his memoirs and autobiography. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying