Reply #6: NJ resident here also...

[mcscajun]

and our ports are both major and critical, yet not at the top of US ports; that honor falls to the Port of Los Angeles. The combined ports of Newark, Elizabeth, and New York come in at #3. That doesn't mean they are any less important than others, especially to the Senators for NJ and NY. There is also the obvious issue of dangerous cargo coming in so close to the major targets in NYC.

Ah, the smell of the NJ Turnpike on a Saturday night as you cruise Chemical/Petroleum Alley. YUCK. That's why, when I moved from NYC to NJ, I moved WEST to Northwest NJ, so I'd be nowhere NEAR Chemical/Petroleum Alley, or the Turnpike. :)