Posted on 11/10/2021 8:26:08 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
If last week’s election was any indication of how the 2022 midterms will go for Democrats, chances are the party will lose control of one or both chambers of Congress.
Rather than moderating, as even the New York Times editorial board advised last week, they’ve chosen to accept their fate and use their remaining time to ram as much of their socialist agenda items through as possible.
On Wednesday, Politico reported that the Biden administration is considering shutting down the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan that pumps 540,000 barrels of oil and other petroleum products per day through the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes.
NEW: The Biden administration is gathering data on whether shutting down the Line 5 oil pipeline in Michigan would lead to fuel price shocks in the region, according to people familiar with the administration effort. w/@ziannlum https://t.co/EMCCuHFI60
— Ben Lefebvre (@bjlefebvre) November 3, 2021
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has been trying for over a year to shut down this pipeline. In May, she published an op-ed in The Washington Post. She wrote, “[F]or nearly 70 years, an oil company has pumped crude oil through the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron connect and where Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas come closest.”
“The two aging, 4.5-mile sections of underwater pipeline are a ticking time bomb.”
The governor noted she’d filed a lawsuit against the company, Enbridge, last November, and the company was advised that “the state of Michigan was revoking and terminating the 1953 easement for Enbridge’s dual pipelines in the Straits. The notice gave Enbridge 180 days … to cease pumping oil through the Great Lakes.”
She wrote that Enbridge had defied the order and continued to operate. Whitmer added she “would make every effort to disgorge the company of all profits unjustly earned from Line 5 while trespassing on state land. Enbridge says it will continue pumping until a court orders it to stop.”
Just days ago, this administration was begging OPEC to increase the production of oil. Now it’s considering decreasing U.S. production even further at a time when prices have already skyrocketed and the winter heating season is upon us.
The White House is fully aware that carbon emission in Russia or the Middle East has the same effect on the planet as an emission in the U.S. But importing oil from the tyrants who hate us will push up U.S. prices to what they hope will be a prohibitive level.
On Oct. 13, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Americans would be spending up to 54 percent more to heat their homes this winter.
The significance of increases in the price of oil cannot be overstated. The Biden administration declared war on the fossil fuel industry on day one, and its deliberate efforts to sabotage this sector have reduced supply and driven prices to their current levels.
Did none of these people take Econ 101?
When you dramatically reduce supply (killing Keystone, canceling leases on federal lands, increasing regs) . . . price goes UP. https://t.co/betQmtpXBi — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 8, 2021
On Thursday, 13 Republican members of Congress, including Reps. Tim Walberg and Jack Bergman of Michigan and Bob Latta of Ohio, penned a letter to Biden calling on him to keep the pipeline open.
“Line 5 is essential to the lifeblood of the Midwest. Should this pipeline be shut down, tens of thousands of jobs would be lost across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the region; billions of dollars in economic activity would be in jeopardy; and the environment would be at greater risk due to additional trucks operating on roadways and railroads carrying hazardous materials,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Furthermore, as we enter the winter months and temperatures drop across the Midwest, the termination of Line 5 will undoubtedly further exacerbate shortages and price increases in home heating fuels like natural gas and propane at a time when Americans are already facing rapidly rising energy prices, steep home heating costs, global supply shortages, and skyrocketing gas prices.”
The lofty prices Americans are paying at the pump didn’t happen by accident; they have been part of the progressive plan for years. Simply put, Democrats are convinced that if they can drive up the prices of fossil fuels to exorbitant levels, consumers will seek alternatives like green energy.
Biden administration officials no longer even try to hide their motives — and that might be the scariest thing of all.
Forgot to add article cited:
https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-responds-skyrocketing-gas-prices-thinking-shutting-another-american-pipeline/?ff_source=push&ff_medium=westernjournalism&ff_campaign=jeeng
Her shutdown order was rebuffed by the courts, so now she is turning to her gal pal and Mighigan Governess Alumni Jennifer Granholm, the current Secretary of Energy, to shut it down for her.
Oh you had better believe it! Why? They have told us in no u certain terms, they want us DEAD.
So, if I’m short on food it makes sense to throw away what I do have? The Babylon 🐝is not satire anymore.
“Did none of these people take Econ 101?”
They did, and they are deliberately executing the national economy. That is the goal. You have to bulldoze the old house before you can “build back better”.
I don’t even speak of Biden anymore. The man is a smarmy, corrupt, 50 year political hack - now in the grips of Alzheimers. He has no grasp of what he is doing or what is right.
He was installed in a manufactured soft-coup, color revolution in Nov. 2020. America is now ruled by a collection of various deep-state bureaucrats with operating system of self-preservation and woke ideology. Its an inherently unstable situation.
Saw someplace last night that ‘they’ have backed off on shutting down #5. For now. Probably wait until Christmas as a present to muvver erf.
It’s almost as if Biden is programmed to do the wrong thing.
10 Input X.
20 If X is bad, do X.
30 If X is good, do not X.
40 Goto 10
The man is a complete idiot.
Step one: Call the report garbage.
Step Two: Wait a week and then deny calling the report garbage and implement the policy.
Doe-see-doe, swing your partner and chase the squirrel!
About 6 years ago some pajama boy came to my door with a petition to shut down line five. I verbally assualted him, asking if he was really that stupid. He called me a nazi. I had the last word “this is private property, get off.”.
Just destroy Oil, Gas and Coal and everyone will much happier on Electricity driving their New Chinese Communist Party Electric car ,LOL
The man is a complete idiot.
and everyone around him
INTERESTING VIDEO :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noPijAabUjw
I would have shot the c-sucker.
Plenty of places to get rid of the stinkin MOFO up in N Michigan and the UP.
The old throwing an anchor to a person drowning trick.
What these pigs dont care about is that pipeline supplies 65% of the LP and NG for the UP of Michigan as well as quite a lot for the Northern Lower.
Now someone, on this site stated the other day that they will still get that gas heating, at a price.
I would like that person to explain to me, and those that live in the UP of Michigan how are they to pay for that gas-even if it is in town where NG is the main supply for home heating.
I would really like that person to join me and we will take a trip up to the UP and he can explain that in person to the people him/herself.
The median average age income for ALL of the UP is about 45 grand. But what those statistics fail to mention is that take a way the 5 big counties in the UP with the highest income earnings and you will find that the vast majority of the UP is below 30 grand a year in income...as low as 25 grand a year.
The median age is at about 46 years of age. So you have a very large population of retired people living on fixed incomes.
So explain to us how those people, who are vastly conservative and wish to be left alone to live their lives as they see fit, can afford your high cost of home heating...even in towns.
BTW, the winter heating seasons up there run from late sept to early may.
Her language is right out of Atlas shrugged. “I get to decide whether a private firm can continue to operate” Scary
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