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Posted on 11/08/2021 12:23:41 PM PST by madison10
Fox News reported, “The Biden administration is reportedly weighing the potential market consequences of shutting down an oil pipeline in Michigan. …”
The pipeline, known as Line 5, is 30 inches in diameter and travels from Superior, Wisconsin, through both the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan before ending in Sarnia, Ontario. According to Enbridge, which owns Line 5, closing the 645 mile-long pipeline would mean that Michigan would lose access to 756,000 gallons of propane a day, or 55% of the amount the company supplies to the state. Michigan's residential propane consumption is the nation's highest.
About 315,000 homes in Michigan currently rely on propane, and Line 5 serves an estimated 55% of the state’s propane needs. It provides approximately 65% of the propane used in the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan, with no readily available alternatives.
A Line 5 shutdown would also cause a shortfall of 14.7 million gallons of gas, diesel and jet fuel each day, Enbridge says. That’s 45% of what it supplies to refineries in Michigan, Ohio and the region.
According to PBF Energy, which operates one of two refineries in Toledo:
A Line 5 shutdown would put Ohio refineries at risk. The closure of one of those refineries could result in the loss of $5.4 billion in annual economic output to Ohio and southeast Michigan, and the loss of thousands of direct and contracted skilled trades jobs. A Line 5 shutdown would, to varying degrees, compromise crude supply to 10 refineries in the region, directly affecting fuel prices. There are no options for replacing the volume of light crude delivered by Line 5; rail can provide less than 10% of that volume. A Line 5 shutdown puts at least 15% of northwest Ohio’s fuel supply at risk, as well as more than half of the jet fuel supplies for the Detroit Metro Airport.
Fear porn.
Don’t fall for it.
WE’re one Siberian Express from Revolution.
Fitting it should start in a state that Granholm, a Canadian born implant and Witchmer the Ignorant have driven to their knees.
Welcome to the Green Raw Deal.
Joe wouldn’t do this to a state he actually won.
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Sheer lunacy. It’s like they’re destroying the country on purpose.
It’ll all go on democrat donor owned rail.
And rise in price of course.
Good phrase.
When & where appropriate I may steal that.
Do ya mind? I'll be glad to give you attribution,
but if you copyright it I will not pay any royalties...
Joe isn’t deciding anything. If they want to guarantee losing Democrat voters this would be how to do it.
It is my understanding the lines are quite old and poorly protected against damage.
They should have been replaced already.
If the company doesn’t want to replace the pipelines, the state should and charge its cost plus a 10% margin.
No, not fear porn.
If true, fine, but do not threaten a shut down in November.
Yes, fear porn.
NatGas furnaces will not stop running this winter.
Enbridge isn’t the only supplier.
MGS, MGU, TransCanada and DTE can deliver if L5 is shut down.
For a price....
.” There are no options for replacing the volume of light crude delivered by Line 5; rail can provide less than 10% of that volume.”
CN has the ONLY line that runs from west to est through the UP of MI
It wont even supply 10% I would wager.
The only other way would be to load tankers at Duluth and run them around the horn on the great lakes.
:: It is my understanding the lines are quite old and poorly protected against damage. ::
Please, stop passing on misinformed data.
Are the lines “old”? What is old in the pipeline game?
Poorly protected? Do you what lengths Enbridge went to , to protect L5? Can you describe the protection and why it is considered poor?
Let’s stop depending on the “watermelons” feeding the liberal media with their worthless \opinions as fact\.
Ping for yer boy.
Nope.
Detroit has natural gas.
This is LP gas.
The people who will suffer the most are the people outside the big cities.
A building without heat has no value. By shutting off the power, the self-pooping methane blaster is eliminating private property.
Planned economic destruction.
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