Biden to Rural Michigan: "Freeze in the dark"

climate terrorist

Last February (and again in June) I wrote about Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s ordering the shutdown of the pipeline that brings oil, gas, and most important to the 65% of residents in the Upper Peninsula and 50% of the rest of the state who heat their homes with it, propane. Canada has a treaty allowing it to use the pipeline and, so far, has successfully defied Whitmer’s order.

So Whitmer has turned to the state’s former governor Jennifer Granholm, now the Department of Energy Secretary for help. The Biden administration is now “considering” invalidating the treaty and shutting off the supply.

With an administration that’s been laughing at and applauding the doubling of fuel prices, I have a pretty good idea how this will turn out.

UPDATE, Related: Like the dog who finally caught the car he was chasing, now what? The defeat of CMP hydropower transmission in Maine leaves New England wondering how it will meet its self-imposed renewable energy deadlines.

It won’t of course, which will be interesting, because there will be millions of electric cars in the region by then, placed on the road by federal and state mandates, with no way to power them up.

And that’s exactly the goal.

UPDATE: Doomberg has an excellent article on this subject today. He gives a lower figure for the percentage of homes heated with propane than the number I’d read; 20%-30% vs 60%, but the disastrous consequences will be the same. A thorough history of this pipeline, and even a neutral presentation of the other side’s position.