" . . . if she prevails, consumers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania will pay an additional $4.756 billion each year for gasoline . . . "

[YouSayPotato]

Whitmer Wants Higher Gas Prices​

The Governor’s pipeline assault would cost consumers a bundle.​

By The Editorial Board Wall Street Journal

Updated March 14, 2022 9:32 am ET

The Imperial Oil refinery, located near Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, March 20, 2021​

Americans are already paying an average of $4 for a gallon of gasoline these days. And if Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer succeeds in shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, consumers will pay even more in the Midwest.
Ms. Whitmer is fighting Enbridge in state and federal court with the goal of compelling the closure of Line 5, a crucial pipeline carrying fossil fuels between Canada and several U.S. states. Her campaign is contrary to a U.S. treaty with Canada, not that she seems to care.

But maybe in an election year she’ll care that if she prevails, consumers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania will pay an additional $4.756 billion or more each year for gasoline and diesel fuel, according to a new report from the Consumer Energy Alliance, a business and consumer advocacy group.
Line 5 moves more than half a million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids each day throughout Canada and the Great Lakes region, and there’s no ready alternative to transport this amount of energy. The report predicts a closure would mean that “refineries in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and Quebec would lose about 45% of their crude oil input.” They’d have to scale back operations or shut down, which would constrict the fuel supply and jack up the price of gasoline and diesel for years.

Researchers Bernard Weinstein and Terry Clower looked for a precedent when a region’s refineries had to shut down for extended durations. They found only natural disasters like hurricanes created comparable disruptions to the energy supply chain.
Their study estimates Ms. Whitmer’s bow to the climate lobby would drive up the cost of gasoline and diesel from 9.47% to 11.66%. The authors say this estimate is “independent of any other market conditions, such as the surge in fuel prices observed over the past 12 months that are tied to international oil markets and logistical challenges caused by the pandemic.”
At a time when the U.S. should be focusing on energy stability and security, Ms. Whitmer’s ideological hostility to pipelines threatens more economic harm and consumer pain.

 

[Boiler Buck]

Whitmer Wants Higher Gas Prices​

The Governor’s pipeline assault would cost consumers a bundle.​

By The Editorial Board Wall Street Journal

Updated March 14, 2022 9:32 am ET

The Imperial Oil refinery, located near Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, March 20, 2021​

Americans are already paying an average of $4 for a gallon of gasoline these days. And if Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer succeeds in shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, consumers will pay even more in the Midwest.
Ms. Whitmer is fighting Enbridge in state and federal court with the goal of compelling the closure of Line 5, a crucial pipeline carrying fossil fuels between Canada and several U.S. states. Her campaign is contrary to a U.S. treaty with Canada, not that she seems to care.

But maybe in an election year she’ll care that if she prevails, consumers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania will pay an additional $4.756 billion or more each year for gasoline and diesel fuel, according to a new report from the Consumer Energy Alliance, a business and consumer advocacy group.
Line 5 moves more than half a million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids each day throughout Canada and the Great Lakes region, and there’s no ready alternative to transport this amount of energy. The report predicts a closure would mean that “refineries in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and Quebec would lose about 45% of their crude oil input.” They’d have to scale back operations or shut down, which would constrict the fuel supply and jack up the price of gasoline and diesel for years.

Researchers Bernard Weinstein and Terry Clower looked for a precedent when a region’s refineries had to shut down for extended durations. They found only natural disasters like hurricanes created comparable disruptions to the energy supply chain.
Their study estimates Ms. Whitmer’s bow to the climate lobby would drive up the cost of gasoline and diesel from 9.47% to 11.66%. The authors say this estimate is “independent of any other market conditions, such as the surge in fuel prices observed over the past 12 months that are tied to international oil markets and logistical challenges caused by the pandemic.”
At a time when the U.S. should be focusing on energy stability and security, Ms. Whitmer’s ideological hostility to pipelines threatens more economic harm and consumer pain.

Wants higher gas prices to move people to electric cars. Lib wet dream. Pain=conformity

Trouble is our electric grid we have is not up for the increase of an electric car in an eighth of the suburban garages let alone all of them. Lol

 

[BSIT]

Whitmer Wants Higher Gas Prices​

The Governor’s pipeline assault would cost consumers a bundle.​

By The Editorial Board Wall Street Journal

Updated March 14, 2022 9:32 am ET

The Imperial Oil refinery, located near Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, March 20, 2021​

Americans are already paying an average of $4 for a gallon of gasoline these days. And if Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer succeeds in shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, consumers will pay even more in the Midwest.
Ms. Whitmer is fighting Enbridge in state and federal court with the goal of compelling the closure of Line 5, a crucial pipeline carrying fossil fuels between Canada and several U.S. states. Her campaign is contrary to a U.S. treaty with Canada, not that she seems to care.

But maybe in an election year she’ll care that if she prevails, consumers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania will pay an additional $4.756 billion or more each year for gasoline and diesel fuel, according to a new report from the Consumer Energy Alliance, a business and consumer advocacy group.
Line 5 moves more than half a million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids each day throughout Canada and the Great Lakes region, and there’s no ready alternative to transport this amount of energy. The report predicts a closure would mean that “refineries in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and Quebec would lose about 45% of their crude oil input.” They’d have to scale back operations or shut down, which would constrict the fuel supply and jack up the price of gasoline and diesel for years.

Researchers Bernard Weinstein and Terry Clower looked for a precedent when a region’s refineries had to shut down for extended durations. They found only natural disasters like hurricanes created comparable disruptions to the energy supply chain.
Their study estimates Ms. Whitmer’s bow to the climate lobby would drive up the cost of gasoline and diesel from 9.47% to 11.66%. The authors say this estimate is “independent of any other market conditions, such as the surge in fuel prices observed over the past 12 months that are tied to international oil markets and logistical challenges caused by the pandemic.”
At a time when the U.S. should be focusing on energy stability and security, Ms. Whitmer’s ideological hostility to pipelines threatens more economic harm and consumer pain.

She and another previous Mich Dem Governor Granholm who happens to now be energy secretary are radicals who are both clueless on economics. Chalk up another victory for identity check the box candidates

 

[TwinDegrees2]

Was in Gaylord playing golf last fall and the Dems were having a fund raiser for her campaign. I saw one person come up to them, shake his head, and walk away. Friends up there hate her.

 

[BSIT]

Was in Gaylord playing golf last fall and the Dems were having a fund raiser for her campaign. I saw one person come up to them, shake his head, and walk away. Friends up there hate her.

Very familiar with northern Michigan. Had a lake home on Hubbard Lake and it was my experience that most folks living up there were hard working and wanted to be left alone. I happened to have the misfortune of being on a plane full of Detroit dignitaries flying to Denver. They were flying to Denver for the Democratic convention (Obama). I had to make a connection to Jackson Hole. It was the longest 3.5 hour flight in my life

 

[threeeputtt]

The fruitcakes have barely started to study how to replace gas taxes for roads when EV's get more market share. They don't realize apartments, office complexes, restaurants, single family homes, parking garages all need to be wired along with roadside charging stations. They haven't figured how to ramp up fast the power grid to handle their mandate for EV's much less how poor people will be able to pay for the change from ICE vehicles. I have never seen so many clueless "leaders". Then Ole Uncle Joe spouts about 9000 leases for oil and gas, forgetting they need pipelines and/or transmission lines that are tied up in government red tape.

 

[Crayfish57]

Not that it would matter with our current administration but not something a governor should even have any control over.

 

[YouSayPotato]

Not that it would matter with our current administration but not something a governor should even have any control over.

It's not black and white. This is a legal grey area. There is an international treaty for the pipeline over which the governor has no control. However, the treaty states that the Enbridge company will perform specific maintenance on the pipeline and they have failed to do it several times over the years.

Also, in 2018 a ship dragged an anchor the pipeline and it would have been a disastrous oil spill if the line had ruptured. This event is what Whitmer is using to justify shutting down the line.

Anchor dents pipeline