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Colonial on Steroids’: Refinery Reveals Economic Catastrophe if Gretchen Whitmer Kills Michigan Pipeline
Breitbart ^ | May 14,2021 | KYLE OLSON

Posted on 05/14/2021 5:38:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk

A company that owns several refineries in the eastern United States broke down the economic catastrophe that would unfold if Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) successfully kills a crude oil pipeline that has been in operation for over 50 years.

Whitmer has ordered Enbridge to cease operating Line 5 by May 12, a pipeline that runs from Canada through Michigan. The company refused to comply with Whitmer’s demand. She has threatened to seize the company’s profits and claimed the pipeline is now “trespassing” on state property in the Straits of Mackinac.

Energy, told Breitbart News the fallout from Whitmer’s attempt to end Line 5 would be “Colonial on steroids,” the pipeline recently knocked off line by hackers, sparking gas shortages along the eastern seaboard.

“It would be devastating for the region,” Williams said. The volume of crude oil that moves through Line 5, he said, is “the equivalent of 40 percent of the crude capacity of regional refiners. That’s not going to come from anywhere else.”

Williams said the crude is shipped from Canada to one of PBF Energy’s refineries in Toledo, Ohio, and then provides gasoline, diesel, and propane to significant portions of the Great Lakes region.

According to Williams, the Toledo area refineries alone supply:

30 percent of Ohio’s gasoline, 42 percent of southeastern Michigan’s gasoline, 35 percent of Ohio’s diesel, 14 percent of southeastern Michigan’s diesel, and 100 percent of Detroit Metro airport jet fuel. “If folks think that the gas lines and the pictures they saw from Colonial were bad, you’ll have that on steroids with the shut down of Line 5,” he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: dubyajudge; janetneff; wdmichigan
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1 posted on 05/14/2021 5:38:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Liberals have a need to kill people


2 posted on 05/14/2021 5:40:35 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Hojczyk

WHitler has zero authority to do this


3 posted on 05/14/2021 5:41:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Within the borders of her state, she can do what she wants.


4 posted on 05/14/2021 5:42:14 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Hojczyk

Does this crazy woman have an idea who she is trying to do? Or does she jusyt no care?


5 posted on 05/14/2021 5:43:22 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: Hojczyk

My “Governor” is SUPEREVIL


6 posted on 05/14/2021 5:43:34 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

On the plus side, it will certainly hurt Trueshit, because that pipeline carries oil into Ontario and Quebec.


7 posted on 05/14/2021 5:43:57 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Democrats don’t care. She has obviously set herself up to make out like a bandit somewhere, as long as she serves her purpose here.


8 posted on 05/14/2021 5:44:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Jonty30

There are legal contracts en force for that pipeline

She has zero authority to ignore them

She is not the judicial branch


9 posted on 05/14/2021 5:44:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Hojczyk

The Shiney Face B*tch is on one hell of a Power Trip.


10 posted on 05/14/2021 5:45:04 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Jonty30

I wonder what it will take to make Canadians to demand a change from their current despot who probably was elected in a scam election as well?


11 posted on 05/14/2021 5:45:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Hojczyk

Too bad it’s not possible to get within a half-mile of Witchmer.


12 posted on 05/14/2021 5:47:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: Hojczyk

According to most states real estate laws they own it all and us subjects are only tolerated as long as we pay.


13 posted on 05/14/2021 5:49:09 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Jonty30

Not if it interferes with an international treaty ratified by the US Senate...
She has no authority...


14 posted on 05/14/2021 5:50:08 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: Secret Agent Man

As long as she pays them out their kisses, I think she can.

It just hurts everybody, but she don’t care about that.


15 posted on 05/14/2021 5:50:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Hojczyk

IMHO, she’s squeezing Enbridge for money. That’s how these people work. Notice Michigan Republicans haven’t done anything about this either.


16 posted on 05/14/2021 5:51:26 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Hojczyk

I read the whole article. No given reason why. Usually when a human does something, there is a reason.

Journalism is dead.


17 posted on 05/14/2021 5:52:19 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I believe one of the “legal contracts” in force right now is a lease agreement where the State of Michigan is one of the parties of the contract.


18 posted on 05/14/2021 5:54:33 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Too bad it’s not possible to get within a half-mile of Witchmer.

880 yards is entirely doable...
19 posted on 05/14/2021 5:56:31 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Jonty30

See she knows it hurts everyone.

Thats the total point of her doing this.

She is a gdm tyrant.

She wants a fuel catastrophe in the midwest. She knows it will not just affect fuel, but transportation and groceries and shipping of goods.

This is why she needs to be removed, and sued left and right. And her ag sued and removed.


20 posted on 05/14/2021 5:57:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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