The New York Times: Countries Promise Trump to Buy U.S. Gas, and Leave the Details for Later
31 July 2025
The European Union has been buying more American gas since Russia, previously a big supplier, attacked Ukraine in 2022, and there is appetite to buy more. But purchasing $250 billion a year would require the bloc to use the United States as essentially its only supplier.
“They would have to not buy from anybody else, and that would just be an enormous amount of dependency on one country, whether it’s us or anybody else,” said Jason Feer, an analyst at the energy and ship brokerage Poten & Partners. “And the whole premise of modern energy systems, energy supply, is you always want some diversity.”
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