Trump Taxed Hockey Sticks and Wigs at 50%. He Never Touched the One Thing That Heats Michigan.

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Last week, Trump signed a 50% tariff on Canada broad enough to tax hockey sticks, wigs, and swimming pools. He specifically exempted one thing: energy. Not because Canadian oil is politically sensitive — because a single 70-year-old pipeline running under the Great Lakes heats more Michigan homes than anything else on Earth, and would trigger a fuel crisis across four states within days if it ever actually shut off. Line 5, built in 1953, carries 540,000 barrels a day of crude oil and natural gas liquids from Wisconsin through the Straits of Mackinac into Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Here's the detail almost nobody knows: a meaningful share of the natural gas liquids it carries get refined into finished propane in Sarnia, Ontario — then shipped directly back into Michigan for people to actually burn. By Enbridge's own numbers, Line 5 supplies 55% of Michigan's propane and 65% of the Upper Peninsula's, where 315,000 homes depend on it and no real alternative exists. A shutdown wou

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