Trump Tariffed Canada's Natural Gas. He Forgot It Heats Entire American States.

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Nearly 1 out of every 10 units of natural gas burned in the United States comes from Canada. And for some northern border states, the number isn't 9% — it's 100%. Every molecule that heats their homes crosses the border by pipeline. Then, in February 2025, Trump put a 10% tariff on Canadian energy — natural gas included. He thought he was squeezing Canada. But a tariff is a tax, and that tax doesn't land on Canada — it lands on the American utility that imports the gas, which passes it straight through to your monthly heating bill. As consumer advocates in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan spelled out plainly: the cost would be "passed through directly to customers in the form of higher monthly gas bills." And the cruelty is the timing: Canadian gas imports SURGE in the dead of winter, exactly when every furnace in the Upper Midwest is running flat out. The hardest-hit states — Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, Washington, Montana — are the coldest in the country, where heat isn't a

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