Posted on 07/16/2018 2:19:46 PM PDT by davikkm
The United States, the top oil and gas seller, will compete with Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany, according to President Donald Trump, who addressed his previously expressed concern about the Nord Stream II pipeline during Monday’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A reporter asked President Trump during the press conference held in Helsinki, Finland, to convey what he discussed with President Putin about the pipeline during the meetings they had concluded just prior to the press conference.
“We will be competing, when you talk about the pipeline,” said Trump, who added, “I’m not sure necessarily that it’s in the best interest of Germany or not, but that was a decision that they made.”
Trump made strong statements to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a first meeting of the NATO summit last week during breakfast. He raised the conflict between NATO allies spending money to defend against Russia while Germany has paid Russia great sums for the Nord Stream II gas pipeline and now partially relies on Russia as an energy source.
“It is very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes and pays out billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia,” Trump said to Stoltenberg at the breakfast meeting.
Trump also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the NATO summit, confirming that the two spoke about his concerns about the pipeline. In joint comments with Merkel after their meeting, they both spoke of a good relationship between the two nations.
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Competition is always a good thing no matter what bernie sanders says.
The bugged soccer ball made him do it. /s
If we have enough oil to sell, then we don’t need to buy any from the middle east. We also should keep it for ourselves.
As well we should, and as long as it is Free Market competition (both ways) the German, American and Russian people will all benefit from it.
Agreed. Stockpile em instead of dealing with ingrates like Germany.
Its ridiculous to think we can supply Europes energy with LNG shipped across the Atlantic
I think we have exactly one processing plant in Louisiana and a few more planned and think we’re going to supply Europe and Asia?
And theyre going to configure their internal infrastructure to accomodate storage and distribution of LNG shipped almost 4000 miles?
Germany would be fools to not tap into a Baltic pipeline
Mueller’s crutches don’t hold so well under the use of Capitalism.
But every time Commies compete against one another Bernie gets another Mansion and the Proletariat get to pay for it.
Competition will be difficult.EThe primary customer has foresworn coal and oil and vows to live off wind and solar and gas, we can’t ship enough gas by sea to make a dent in Euro energy needs and a pipeline under the Atlantic is probably not an option.
We should either charge 100% of what it costs our taxpayers or bring our troops home to seal our own borders.
Heck, Europe can just become part or Vlad's new USSR.
This.
Thanks - you actually help make my case that we have not anywhere near the infrastructure to supply the energy needs of the boneheads in all of Europe who are too righteous to use their own coal and also abandoned nuclear power
Nor do they have the infrastructure to handle and distribute incoming LNG delivered by sea on a massive scale
We’re on the way to becoming the world’s biggest exporter of oil. We’ve also exporting liquefied natural gas from at least two LNG facilities. We made the first delivery to Europe last year, We used to buy 25% of the world’s oil. No longer. OPEC and Russia is screwed.
We can’t compete with the short pipeline...common sense. Perhaps in other areas
True on many accounts...cuts out Poland and other eastern Europe countris and allows Germany to control all of Europe.
Baron’s going to be in a good position now to feed Putin some misinformation.
Or maybe he’ll develop a code so Putin and Trump can communicate through the soccer ball while bypassing monitors.
Especially if they never make any attempt to do so, which they won’t. The truth is that the the Germans have always looked to Russia for resources and wouldn’t buy our stuff if it was cheaper and easier. The Russians and the Germans are both bad news from way back. Neither country gives a damn how badly their deals screw supposedly allied countries that aren’t Germany or Russia. They have both been that way for most of the past century or so.
From where is Trump’s oil pipeline going to be built?
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