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.
12 Indian tribes in Michigan wrote a letter to Biden to shut down line 5.
Just keep piling on the hurt for American people with supplies lines backed up, shortages of food and other commodities, high fuel/energy prices with winter coming.
It is an absolute that the lines have been issued permits to be replaced under the straits.
The line is old and needs to be replaced. The holdup is the wackos see a chance on creating a la la land for themselves to go up and dance around nekkid while the locals freeze or starve. So they are trying to shut this line down.
Much of that line was replaced around 1988-89.
Want to know how I know? I sold them pole length timber to use as matting so they could get their machinery across the many bogs up around Arnold and Northland Mi.
That pole timber came from the Marsh Lake timber sale that I bid on and won.
See my post no 42.
I’m to the point of of just hoping America just falls then maybe people will realize the consequences of voting people like Biden and other idiots into office.
Damn right it’s a done deal. If it hurts Americans, Joe Biden is all for it.
Once everyone accepts that fact, the rest is easy to understand.
I'd feel the same if people could and would learn. But Biden votes are way to stupid to put 2 plus 2 together.
Its CN rail.
Canadian National.
Ha! That will revive the fur trade, like the early 1800s.
PETA can pound sand.
I’m to the point of of just hoping America just falls then maybe people will realize the consequences of voting people like Biden and other idiots into office.
Michigan voted for Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Obama in its previous history just prior to that...Trump very narrowly carried it in 2016. A substantial number if not most of those there did indeed vote for this in 2020 regardless of any fraud or irregularities. #reality
The Enviro-whackos have been trying to shut down Line 5 since 2014.
You need to explain WHY you think this is not real and very serious.
Hey, asshole some of us conservatives live near Detroit and would suffer as well. Be careful who you condemn to suffering so casually.
CC
Shipping is not near as safe as pipelines. We are talking winter on the Great Lakes here AND getting people to work on those ships.
who knew that when you freeze to death you turn green
Farmers (big time), small businesses, schools, resorts, green houses, etc. Mostly rural people that Leftists hate and ones who voted Republican.
good ol’ joe is the fall guy
The Democrats continue to act as if pleasing voters no longer matters. Has anything changed in Michigan regargding how votes are collected and counted since 2020?
“There is absolutely no reason why any sane person, who does not have ill intent, would even consider shutting down this pipeline. No practical reason whatsoever.”
Just imagine if we went to war with Red China tomorrow. One of their main objectives would be to shut this pipeline down, just as one of ours would be to destroy the Three Gorges Dam, an operation similar to what the British Dam Busters did to the Germans in WW II. Now Biden’s illegally getting ready to do the same kind of warlike thing to hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans and Canadians. He deserves to be impeached and removed from office for this act of treason alone.
Not that I know of, but I do not see all the news
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