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Many Michigan Gas Furnaces Could Stop Running If Line 5 Ordered To Close
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 11/8/2021 | Tom Gantert

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.


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To: joe fonebone

Whitmer is now trying to find another gas source for the furnaces to burn the unvaxxed with yellow stars.


61 posted on 11/08/2021 2:05:51 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: joe fonebone

Whitler wants it shut down ASAP.


62 posted on 11/08/2021 2:16:35 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: madison10

Any election where massive voter fraud is not punished is *exactly* the same as a lost election. The bad guys still take office.


63 posted on 11/08/2021 2:18:56 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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To: GaltAdonis

Use it all you want.


64 posted on 11/08/2021 2:29:57 PM PST by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Well, they voted for it.
/\

You know damned well the votes that counted came from FRAUD.

We , the majority, didn’t vote for squat

Dominion did.
( with help from sytel, eas , smartmatic and clarion )

I smell rino.


65 posted on 11/08/2021 2:59:38 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

And CCP

All 50 states.


66 posted on 11/08/2021 3:01:35 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: crz

“The only other way would be to load tankers at Duluth and run them around the horn on the great lakes.”

Yeah, right. That should work real well when the lakes start getting covered with ice between late November to early April. (/S!)

And the rural folk generally will start getting their fireplace inserts and outdoor wood boilers busy pretty quick. So much for trees to help cut global warming by taking out CO2.


67 posted on 11/08/2021 5:56:34 PM PST by Uber-Eng (Northern Texan at heart...Help me save Michigan!!!)
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To: PTBAA; Cletus.D.Yokel

“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?”

*****

We’re working on some items as best we can. Not expecting any help from the So Rows sponsored trifecta of governor, attorney general and secretary of state.


68 posted on 11/08/2021 6:01:30 PM PST by Uber-Eng (Northern Texan at heart...Help me save Michigan!!!)
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To: madison10

“Shipping is not near as safe as pipelines”

Ya think?


69 posted on 11/08/2021 8:04:36 PM PST by crz
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To: madison10

Aside from Marquette County and sometimes Gogebic County, the UP is conservative. As is the Northern Lower Peninsula.


70 posted on 11/08/2021 8:07:58 PM PST by crz
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To: Uber-Eng

A good many of those up there already have outdoor wood boilers. And a good many burn firewood in common wood stoves and furnaces aside from outdoor boilers.


71 posted on 11/08/2021 8:09:54 PM PST by crz
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To: crz

LOL We know that, but there are a bunch of Leftists who have mo clue


72 posted on 11/08/2021 11:26:21 PM PST by madison10 (Congratulations, Virginia! )
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To: matt04

Biden doesn’t know what planet he is on. Most or all his staffers are obama retreads. They have the same mindset as obama. Damage this country as much as they can.

Remember, every thing obama did to this country was damaging.


73 posted on 11/17/2021 11:31:34 AM PST by Texas resident (Sucks to be named Brandon now)
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To: Engedi

How many will die because of Biden?


74 posted on 11/19/2021 7:18:38 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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To: LuxAerterna

That’s exactly what they are doing. In order to “build back” you must first destroy.


75 posted on 11/19/2021 7:20:11 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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