Responding to reporters’ questions, today President of the European Union commission Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Donald Trump then immediately began the framework to explain EU background discussions in economic terms. “We still get a lot of [liquified natural gas] from Russia, and why not replace it by American LNG, which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices,” said Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU realizes the seismic shift that is upon them as a result of the U.S. election. Everything from the Ukraine-Russia war; the economics of energy which President Trump will use in negotiations for peace; to the factual lowered prices within the EU created by Joe Biden energy policy to punish Americans; to funding for NATO in combination with the potential for the end of the Marshal Plan one-way tariffs are looming. President von der Leyen is in a very precarious position.
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Ursula was speaking from ¹Budapest, Hungary.
While many are interpreting her remarks about purchasing LNG to be snuggling up to President Trump, factually it is a much bigger problem than western media will openly discuss.
President von der Leyden is trying to position herself against the Trump Doctrine.
Energy products do not belong to extraction companies. The oil and gas belong to We the People. It is a national resource value held by private individuals (landowners) and the government (public lands).
The U.S. Govt permits oil and gas companies to operate, and the companies pay fees to the government for approvals.
The government sells leases and permits for negotiated extraction. Biden hampered this process, cancelling leases, cancelling permits and shutting down pipelines and extraction processes that drove prices higher.
Let me explain what is coming with a question: Whose energy prices do you think Trump cares about? The price Americans pay, or the price Ursula and the Brussels bureaucracy pays?
America First!
President Trump’s geopolitical leverage is to stimulate energy production domestically, while controlling export permitting in the process.
Rember, Biden increased LNG exports and drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of his anti-Russia strategy.
The SPR oil sales made little impact on the global market and U.S. gasoline prices jumped. Meanwhile, the pushed LNG exports drove domestic prices for natural gas higher.
President Trump’s “America First” MAGAnomics will reverse the Biden energy plan in part by limiting LNG export and dropping U.S domestic prices. This will lower inflation and transfer natural inflation to Europe. The second part is to create leverage needed in the Ukraine/EU/Russia dynamic.
Russia is blocked from selling gas (or LNG) into the broader western global market. This creates an opportunity for Trump at the negotiating table.
Increasing production leases, expanding pipelines, reauthorizing terminal development, while simultaneously controlling (ie limiting) export contract approvals lowers domestic oil and gas prices.
Once domestic prices drop to a level that Trump feels is the most economically beneficial, only then does the other part of the equation come into play.
What Ursula said today was an attempt to pressure Trump to retain Biden policy of subsidizing the EU (via expanded energy exports) while the U.S. consumer pays more. Watch Trump say, “no deal.”
President Trump gets leverage toward Putin’s agreement (perhaps acquiescence) in Trump’s Ukraine peace deal by holding the carrot of renewed gas sales into the western (global) market; sanctions essentially removed, in combination with the withdrawal of U.S. LNG pumps into the same market.
Trump already said, “the gold under our feet” will drive his term-2 geopolitical strategy. This is the second iteration of the Trump doctrine.
Expanded energy product development will lower the U.S. cost of goods, ultimately lowering prices. Inflation is then under better control. The Green New Deal dies an immediate death.
In combination with targeted tariffs, the energy sector then becomes part of the geopolitical equation to attain global peace. Simultaneously, improving our position as a global energy provider generates the money to expand our economy and pay down debt. “The gold under our feet.”
Throughout the process the dollar climbs in value against global currencies. A climbing dollar weakens the BRICS group who are, understandably, attempting to remove the dollar as the dominant trade currency because a weaponized dollar (Russian sanctions regime) is against their interests.
China and the EU will try to devalue their currency as a tariff offset; however, both China and the EU are energy dependent. The more they devalue their currency, the greater the impact to their own domestic price inflation. This is a substantive difference between Trump term-1 tariffs, and Trump term-2 tariffs.
In this second term, President Trump now has the opportunity to leverage U.S energy production and global energy prices as a weapon to force China and the EU to feel the true impact of targeted tariffs. President Trump then extends the benefit of his leverage position during his negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If Asia balks, or if China tries to use their new and larger trade position for economic influence with Russia’s decision making, President Trump simply tells Beijing to back down or tariffs increase.
Ursula doesn’t stand a chance.
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¹Budapest, Hungary.
This sure explained a lot of things!
#3. “WE boost OUR
military defense capabilities
and preparedness”
-🤔
No. The military has enough money.
Not really. The contractors and suppliers get most of the money
That needs to be changed
The American military has not won a war since August 1945 when Japan surrendered. America has been continually at war since 1950. Lurching from defeat after defeat.
Our borders are 100 percent open to hostile invaders. Who extract tribute from America in the guise of welfare and affirmative action jobs.
American military loses wars for 79 years. Does not defend our borders against the millions of foreign invaders who arrive every year.
Why do we still have this totally useless military? A military dominated by blacks gays transgenders that discriminated against White men in promotions?
It’s not your great grandpas military any more.
What about Grenada? Lol
I was there during the 1979 revolution..
At the medical school?
So what do you say to the 42 and a half million people of South Korea?
I tell S. Korea not to sign trade agreements with China while the US is defending them.
Look, males in S. Korea have to do two years national service, mostly army. They have decent air force and navy. I think they can defend themselves. US forces in Korea are not there to defend it; they are there to advance US foreign policy in regards to China and Russia.
The problem is, since August 1945 the US foreign policy establishment has embraced a grand strategy that called for the US to establish and support a “rules-based international order”. This strategy can’t really be enacted with any reasonable military force; it’s doomed to fail. It’s not that American military loses wars (though counter-insurgency doctrine was an army mistake), rather it’s the wrong tool for the declared strategy.
And you spent how many years in the military?
Including the cheney bunch, aka, the military industrial complex and their congressional partners that grease the rails on the train delivering the cash.
Probably true. The real requirement for our military is shit canning the top heavy military leadership and ending woke nonsense so it can be more efficient. Then smashing the Military Indusial complex price gouging and kickbacks to congress.
All of them from Colonel up. Trump should call the chiefs of staff to the WH and tell them “you’re fired”.
Boosting our military defense and capabilities does not necessarily mean spending more money. We should redirect the money we are already spending to benefit American defense needs, not defense of foreign countries that can well afford to defend themselves.
The top US Navy procurement priority is replacing the existing Ohio class of Trident II strategic nuclear subs with the Columbia class. Does the US need a submarine nuclear deterrent/response force? Give us your answer and reasons then we can talk about spending.
Money won’t solve the problem of incompetent (or worse) top officers and the subsequent loss of morale and declining recruiting numbers.
Personnel are the foundation for a superior military.
Focus on the people first, give them good leaders and legitimate missions, give them the training needed to do their job, give them appreciation.
None of those things cost money.
Try living on a military salary in today’s economy.
Our military ground hardware is laying smoking mounds in the 404.
The SMO is battles against a real army (Russia) vs what ever Green Tee Shirt guy is given with orders from the west (UK &US).
May see GTS guy less in the future.
Ending the Marshall Plan is the ticket. We built Europe and Japan by they tariffing US and US lettin them have free entry. They are rich now and 80 years was long enough.
Can you blame them? Pearl harbor was a CIA op
CIA did not exist in 1941.
Don’t confuse Right to Reply with the facts Guessed, it will only cause RtR to leave in a huff.
Bingo
On June 13, 1942, Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
https://www.nps.gov/cato/learn/historyculture/oss1.htm#:~:text=On%20June%2013%2C%201942%2C%20Roosevelt,head%20of%20the%20new%20agency
6 months after Pearl Harbor
And President Washington’s spy number was…711. Please research the petticoat colors on Long Island.
A CIA op? Can you explain to me how something that occurred in 1941 was caused by an outfit that didn’t come into being until 1947? If anything Pearl Harbor was the result of our lacking in something like the CIA as it developed after Pearl.
Our problem is not the CIA of 1947. Our problem is what those within our government have since allowed the CIA to become.
“Our problem is not the CIA of 1947. Our problem is what those within our government have since allowed the CIA to become.”
From the onset (per NSC 10/2) the CIA was crafted to be a multi-nationalist’s toolkit but in the name of clandestine necessity. The CIA is just the cover and continuation of a long line of drug/human smuggling ratlines, and regime change as needed. It’s not the retail view but it is the truth. It is what it was crafted to be.. and continues to be. Ref below: these activities aren’t being done for a peace dividend, in fact, it prevents it.
CIA should go back to being a Central Intelligence Clearing House same as the Fed should be a Currency Board.
Fed allegedly is the lender of last resort but that is a lie. It’s the lender of only resort and it makes America owe it the world plus 10%, ie an impossible debt.
Neither should exist.
That’s my inclination. Getting into the sound money discussion via digital stuff.. I get lost. I used to have a much clearer picture on it years ago, but with digital currencies.. again, it’s over my head.
Electronic currency, counterfeited by the Fed or blockchain still is founded in Faith.
It’s just a lot cheaper to get to hyperinflation if you don’t have to physically run a printing press.
But when the CIA/MIA needs pallets of cash, the Fed is always at the ready.
Good point!
The CIA is much too tainted, by far. I’m not exactly sure what the solution would be after disbanding, because the same vested interests would remain, but the CIA has to go as an empowered institution. It’s all fruit of a poisonous tree at this point. As for the Fed Reserve, it’s over my head, but most of us know the origin story – not good.
The only way out of the idiotic concept of printing money and lending into the marketplace (usary) is to return to real money based on a real value standard. Attempting to head in that direction helped get JFK killed.
That’s what makes sense to me. We’re being woven into this borg system and it’s quite scary to me.
Understanding what really is going on can be a heavy load.
The Fed and CIA are joined at the hip.
And boy have they become experts at turning that against the American people to further their own corruption.
Not only allowed the CIA to become but actively restructured the management of same to target Americans. You listening Obama?
SPIT!
Yeah, Obama scaled things up drastically in ways, but the “gun” has been pointed domestically for a long time. They don’t care about legality much, just a matter of scale.
Sorry, they are so corrupt they really have to go
To be fair, the dirty agency wasn’t tagged as the CIA until later, but it existed, notwithstanding the fact that it likely had no hand in Pearl Harbor.
The best evidence is that the FDR Admin. looked the other way. Desperate to get into the fight at any cost.
Yep, but my point is CIA, schmee.I.A…. It’s a tentacle of the octopus, so to speak.
And our collective lack of morals and Godliness!
Remember that FDR put an oil embargo on Japan, thus the attack.
And impounded their ships that were in American ports.
Well, true that FDR put scrap steel and oil embargo on Japan. Japan gov’t used this as part of justification for seeing the so-called ABCD powers as enemies. IJA developed a southern strategy to seize Dutch and British territory in the oil rich East-Indies. IJN was concerned that providing the required naval forces to support the strategy would leave Japan vulnerable to a flank attack by the USN. So Yamamoto made elimination of the USN battle force a pre-requisite to supporting the southern strategy.
In a sense, FDR’s deterrence strategy of keeping the US Fleet in Hawaii rather than returning to San Pedro did work as intended in keeping Japan from executing the southern strategy, but he may have over-estimated US’s intel capabilities in that Japan was able to sortie its fleet from home waters to a north Pacific rendezvous without detection.
Just let people know that the CIA is predicated by the people that formed the CIA . Technical points being what they are and all. The CIA (as are all government IC groups) is an instrument of multi-national interests, from a reductionist pov, so you’re not too far off at all. Who cares what they’re calling themselves currently.
@Right to reply…. the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
I think I’ve heard that. 😎
? Don’t stop there… please tell.
Too bad AI is so stupid to not understand its programming is faulty.
Pearl Harbor was NOT a CIA op. Are you that misinforrmed? Peatl Harbor was allowed to happen by FDR’s Administration to suck us into that war that FDR and Churchill wanted us in. Yes, we’ve been sold a bill of goods (surprise) England is not our friend. They’ve always looked at us as one of their Colonies.
“…England is not our friend. They’ve always looked at us as one of their Colonies.”
Agreed. And, as Sundance points out, Biden and his (mis)administration act like we are still one of their colonies – taxing the “colonists” to subsidize England and the European Union. Sounds a whole lot like George III’s policy. FJB, or better, JBisF.
There is a CT that FDR viewed the war as a way to topple the British Empire and install the US as “top dog”. Certainly the subsequent battle over FDR’s desire to open a second front in Southern France vs Churchill’s demand for a campaign in Greece can be viewed as evidence for that. (And So. France meant forces under Eisenhower while in Greece would be under Sir Harold Alexander.)
Neither CIA nor its predecessor OSS existed in 1941.
Just like the civil war. /s
Eisenhower said that if NATO exists in 10 years we will have failed
“Those mean tweets are too much”
I think what most are not understanding about LNG is:
Demand vs Capacity.
Delivery vs Storage
$$$ vs Regulationary Inflation
Just took look at some interesting data sets.
The thing that stood out for me was, “What metrics the technician side of the LNG industry tracks.”
And, “What metrics the monetary side of the LNG industry tracks.”
Naturally, both aspects play a role in the LNG futures commodity market.
However, there is a clear trend. One is based in reality and the other is based in assumptions.
Both have valid parts to play in the commodity markets and eventually the bottom line economics, i.e. the eventual prices consumers pay for almost everything.
I don’t think it will come as a shock that nearly all LNG is used to generate electricity and to generate heat. It not like you go to the corner market to buy a cubic meter of the stuff.
The reality is demand for the LNG will always be high but it has a regular heart beat of reasonable and foreseeable demand.
It may be helpful to think of demand as a normalized constant equal to 1.0 when looking at the monetary side of the equation and it is only the technical side matrixes of capacity and storage/exploration that are playing an active reality based role in setting the price in the LNG commodity market.
(What DC is calling build back better)(The nerve!)
Essentially, both matrices are operating divergent to each other.
I don’t know about you, but when market matrixes are operating divergent of each other. Somehow big capital always makes money hand over fist.
And, since that is an added value cost with no real relationship to true material added value. It is by definition inflationary.
With results are that the monetary side is getting a free lunch with this built-in inflationary policy.
(Go figure)(What Sundance calls the BBB Feature)
The fact is Russia has huge excessive capacities that is not flowing through pipelines into EU.
All the reasons and arguments that this is good thing are emotional based.
(Guess which matrices loves the emotional bottom line, monetary or technical?)
Fact is US exporting of LNG is a self serving exercise of shooting oneself in the foot when the technicals are all smack right in your face.
(Again, the Nerve of BBB!)
So, the best way to is not to export LNG but to use our LNG fully in the domestic market by reducing the need to import other forms of energy.
If the US LNG policy makers really wanted to use LNG as economic leverage. They would unleash the technical side realities that have transformed the US into a proven LNG super power.
To domestically produce good and services that are wanted for export, domestic R&D investments and consumer products that an advanced leading first world economy tends to support.
Namely, LNG tricky little bug-a-boo problem of storage. That is what has transform the US into a energy super power.
Specifically when it comes down to the specific physical properties of that little hydrocarbon molecule that feeds into the technical metrics.
Let me be clear:
LNG is not something that comes out the ground. It is not transported through pipelines as LNG. The cryogenics and pressures and the associated risks of a very flammable, explosive properties of LNG alone dictate those facts.
The other ‘ToBeClear’ observations deal capacities and storage.
Because there are two main capacity restraints on natural gas.
There is the capacity out of ground and then there capacity to uptake and use.
The differences between the two without storage boils down essentially to an equilibrium.
(What goes in must equal what comes out. But, in this case it is what comes out must equal what goes in.)
Would it shock you to find out that if the demand capacity(which is really an uptake measure) without storage and/or wide distribution(pipelines) capcity is so far smaller than the out of the ground capacity.
So, much so that the only thing do is burn it off.
To the credit of the Gulf States their combined investment answer to be a reliable supplier of LNG is perhaps the most efficient addressment of these technical problems about natural gases to LNG on the planet hands down.
But still, LNG is a very tricky product to handle as something you want sitting around. Mostly, all LNG storage issues have been addressed by means of on-time delivery contracts.
(The natural and health operational role of the monetary side matrices of LNG, but I digress.)
Still, the fact remains there is no LNG storage capacity of the same orders of magnitudes that even comes close to proven reserves(in the ground) nor the stabilizing outcomes of efficient extraction capacity of up-take.
Say, it with me, ‘Zero’.
That has changed in American LNG storage capacity. Since it can now be thought of as a proven reserve that has approached similar magnitudes of some of best proven natural gas fields on the planet.
The scale of difference is mind blowing in terms of LNG storage of in-demand transportation at any point from source to use to that of proven reserve fields.
Here is what BBB bs policy is actually accomplishing.
1.) Demonizing the most efficient and cleanest form of energy usage on the planet. That is outside the theoretical possibilities of fusion. Renewables such as dams and geothermal play a significant small fraction of meeting the US GNP energy demands. Green sources of solar and wind barely tick the scale in coming close to meeting US GNP demands for electricity/energy at any given moment let alone drive GDP expansion.
2.) Say it with me, “BBB is as inflationary as if you allowed the monetary side to pick you pockets ten times a day to pay for their three hour lunches.(The so called Feature.)
– a. Instead of re-investment into exploration or build out capacity(pipelines). Regulatory restrictions are being used to actually stifle real DNP outcomes.
You know the type of economic actives that actually transforms raw materials, labor, expertises and capital into actually something that is real and tangible.
-b. And as only can be expected in inflationary cycles. The true stifle cost on direct R&D investment is directly proportional to the base cost of energy. That is cost of the useful work required to produce something.
3.) BBB takes the emotional, wraps it up into a nice, neat little box with a bow on it and presents it to those with the sole intention to extract wealth from a transaction.
The sum total of this BBB deconstruction is at the heart of Man Street Economic Activities vs Wall Street Economic Policies.
The tangibles and potentials underlying ‘There are trillions at stake!’ sloganeering.
This is what makes the farce of the green new deal so infuriating! LNG is the cleanest energy and the cabal quashed it, demonized it and made it so unaffordable so they could push the ineffective wind farms and solar options
But now…
We The People have been unburdened by what has been…
Trust God. Fear not.
Thanks MTK. That was good stuff. Too often political and economic concepts are communicated on a very superficial and therefore inaccurate level. Tha was some valuable shit.
Just to be very clear. Natural Gas is produced, transported in pipelines and used as a gas inside the US. The LNG is needed for storage and to ship overseas.
10-15 years ago, as part of the fracking boom, the cost of gas per BTU produced diverged from coal and fuel oil because of the oversupply. Which caused the major shift in electricity production. Also started the investment of building the LNG plants and terminals.
The LNG terminals and plants I work in were originally built as import facilities, with the product coming from Algeria. Some were converted to export operations, the one in MS had 2 ships come in for the ribbon cutting then sat idle, I don’t know if it was ever converted. The talk was there don’t know of the action.
There is a port in the Houston area that shipped propane to Europe that we didn’t need here.
One of the issues when the Nordstream was blown up was that it was pipeline NG that is cheap as compared to shipped LNG, and the Europeans didn’t have the necessary storage and converting infrastructure adding more cost.
As such manufacturing in EU mainly Germany is in a downward spiral with shuttering of plants and laying off workers. I believe I read where VW is shutting 3 or 4 plants laying off thousands if the union will let them.
This was very informative. My impression was that President Trump’s intention is to sell LNG (and oil) to the whole world to bring down the national debt. Sort of re-instating the petro dollar. I think he also intends to sell it to third world nations in a cooperative move to help them develop their resources and foil the predatory Belt and Road initiative of China.
You are saying that Russia has a natural advantage of reserve capacity and location that will always be an insurmountable headwind that US supply cannot compete with, if I got that right. Add to that the oil and gas field discovered in Israel, which if developed would have an even better location to supply Europe.
I agree with your suggestion that our abundant LNG resource should better be employed to make the US into a manufacturing powerhouse.
Without cheap abundant energy there is no way to have a first world economy. That’s why the destroyers of America indoctrinate us with Green New Deal absurdities.
Think about aluminum production, it requires so much electricity and has a direct relationship to building military aircraft.
But maybe the newer melt-down- proof nuclear reactors would make more sense for that.
As Shakespeare said,
“one may smile, and smile
and be a villain.”
Thank you for this excellent article as usual.
Ursula you old bitty, you are about learn a hard lesson of economics MAGA style.
The American people are sick and tired of being your piggy bank. You are about to feel real pain in your little green climate scam when it crashes down around your ears.
Ursula you will be lucky if you’re not jailed when the people find out what you and your buddies have done to them.
Orban in the MAGAHOOD
EU doesn’t buy LNG, countries do and EU (like P U) has no pull other then their ding dongs.
For the most part, this is all over my head…but a very good optic would be…
somewhere up on the north slope…
.a TV crew from say, RSBN….shows some random oil worker, turning the last dial or wheel in the process of opening the pipelines and getting the oil flowing…as he finishes saying “I do so solemnly swear…”.
Sundance
My Husband and I were just discussing energy stocks and LNG
Looking good in the market. Our investments are moving on up
Excellent explanation.
SD, thanks for the tutelage all along. The moment that woman opens her mouth my own version of Suspicious Cat gets “that look.” She is out of her depth, to our benefit. I’m going to enjoy this soooo much.
Carbon climate forcing, sustainable “green” energy and “fossil” fuels are the trifecta of energy enslavement frauds.
“Only an Airhead Can Save Us from Air” > NO gas molecule can capture, store, redirect or amplify radiant energy photons
“Green Prince of Darkness Exposed” > every “renewable” power is a net energy loser
“From Muscle Power to Carbon Empowerment” > Hydrocarbons exist throughout the Universe and are not dinosaur residue
All at > principia-scientific (.)com > wee are lied to by Pied Piper professors using Chicken Little science to force Jack in the Beanstalk energy solutions. Find and share Truth, it is your duty as an earthling
AWG-5 from tutorial series on energy FRAUDS >
https://bitchute.com/video/XvVcTtNsVvZ5/
I prefer to be called a human, aka a child of God, thank you.
Don’t forget the 10s of billions in oil leases purchased in Ukraine by Exxon, Chevron, and Shell which is part of the reason Russia started hostilities. See @MikeBenzCyber as it is one of the only places where this is mentioned.
OK, but the “10s of billions” was total cost over 50 years of extraction. Not immediate money. Also was negotiated by Yanukovich who Obama overthrew in the 2014 color revolution.
Thank you for the explanation
Von der Leyen is on thin ice, as it a good portion of the EU. As the US goes, so goes the world. The populist movements in the EU will gain strength from the US elections. The EU regulations are strangling EU citizens, and more and more of the leftist EU governments are facing defeat. Good.
Ursula von der Leyen.
The Poster Witch for European WEFism.
The sooner Klaus Schwab and Ursula disappear the sooner Europe can heal.
Negative Interest Rates, the “declaration” of the Scam Pandemic, silencing the voices of reasoned people, centuries of fighting over borders, false purported superiority.
Europe needs an internal flushing.
Oh…and flush Trudeau while you are at it.
I thought that was Turdeau?
Unfortunately, our weapons stores and propellants are at dangerously low levels according to a friend in the weapons business. Too many arms have been shipped to Ukraine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Dangerous situation for USA.
We’ll just ramp up our domestic production. Get those blast furnaces going. Oh, wait…
That’s one of the things that drew me to Donald Trump.
I had been concerned for a long time that we weren’t producing steel like we used to, because what were we going to do if we went to war to defend our country?
Ask Red China to sell us some?
Donald Trump made a point that you need coal to produce steel. I knew that if I thought about it; I just never thought about it.
The scary part was that people in government deciding energy policy obviously weren’t thinking about it either.
We also have a power grid that is dependent upon foreign manufactured goods, like turbines.
We need to make all necessary goods for infrastructure, for medical needs and food, within our own borders.
Otherwise we can be held hostage by whatever foreign government from which we procure these items.
Why does America need weapons? . America has not won a war since Japan surrendered August 1945. Millions of hostile foreigners invade every year.
Would any chain store still support a store that has not even met its payroll and other expenses let alone profits since 1945?????
GO TRUMP GO!!!
Splendid.
Send Ursula all of the windmills – save the whales.
Excellent, Sundance.
One “much bigger problem” that no one will discuss, is that this president of no nation is speaking about issues that are life-and-death to the people of Europe.
My God why are vestiges of the Marshall Plan still in existence?
Get rid of that, get rid of NATO (just end our involvement, that will do it, won’t it?) because its the bone of contention men fight wars over. Get rid of the EU ( not for us to do but hey, they can see how much better it gets for us under Trump).
Germany is de-industrializing. EU becoming totally dependent on US LNG. US uses NATO to bring down Europe and enforce our “rules-based international order”.
IMO Poland is sort of being played as a sucker in NATO.
China is not our enemy. Russia is not our enemy. The EU on the other hand…
China and Russia may be opponents, but the Globalists ARE the enemy.
Does not Russia’s Gazprom have enormous amounts of cheap natural gas that it could sell to the western and eastern Europe…to improve the standard of living of the poor in those countries. This is why Russia is the bogeyman…and not China. For some time now we have wanted leaders who would act against the interests of their own people and by OUR LNG. Obviously we also want to expand NATO to sell NATO specified armaments to the new NATO country. It is almost an annuity to our MIC
Communist Ursula wants to be on the good side.
Want to further change history?……….. Trump should purchase a fleet of ships that would be a conveyor belt of LGN going to Europe and the price should be AT COST! The geopolitical consequences of such a move would rock the global elitists to their core!
So all of Europe can have super cheap energy, while Americans pays a much higher price?
Mm no.
I recruit in the LNG space and lost a 49k fee due to Biden. I have already seen movement and it hasn’t been a week!
Why do we just get so focused on LNG and not coal also.
I would love for the coal industry to come back to fruition.
Also can we bring back lightbulbs instead of these crappy LED things.
I miss my old school lights.
We need strong, truthful scientists to join the administration and scream the truth – that they have been lying to the world for 35 years about CO2 influencing climate – that they were coerced by Al Gore during the Clinton administration through the selective distribution/withholding of government funding and career advancement/persecution – if they did not get on board with the vilification of CO2 and it’s emission via the consumption of oil and coal. That once significant numbers of scientists accepted that devil’s bargain, there was no way to unwind it.
If Trump places the right kind of people into the government’s scientific departments, and they eloquently expose these truths, maybe we can put the GloBull Warming Scam to bed, forever.
Yes bring back the incandescent. LED is expensive junk. Just like Wind. Solar, and our military weapons.
Cheap NG, Coal, and Oil will MAGA
We also need more C02 not less.. The earth is C02 starved. Just ask any green house grower. They will tell you C02 enrichment made from Natural Gas will increase plant production 30%. We need to feed, heat and power the hungry world. Not starve and freeze it with Build Back Better.
LEDs are “the seed oils of lighting.”
Joseph Massey
@jmasseypoet
The Trump administration will END the cruel and stupid ban on incandescent light bulbs. This news is even more cause for celebration.
https://x.com/jmasseypoet/status/1854725748205945194
I’m loving it!!
THANK YOU, Sundance!
Abundant BLESSINGS!
Has anyone thought maybe our LORD made oil to “resupply” itself just as HE did our blood after we donate or even loose our blood?
Thanks for your brilliant explanation, SD! I’m keeping this because I need to re-read it as necessary. I’m a writer — numbers and policies are just something for me to quote! I need your explanation to make it all make sense! LOL! Thanks for the opportunity to do so!!
They know what Trump presidency means for them which is why they tried to stop it. The fact that they are positioning themselves to mitigate an America first policy is hopeful to me in that they are not acting like he won’t be sworn in or serve his whole term
They may yet try to stop him but they all saw the Miracle of Butler and understand that Someone Else is really in charge here.
The insufferably pompous European parasites actually think they have leverage with President Trump.
I really don’t think there will be any energy price leverage against China , India , or any BRICS+ country. Russia has already replaced European markets with China and Europe is still buying energy from Russia through India and other intermediaries. IMO the only thing Trump might be able to do is save the dollar from losing its reserve currency status. I’m not sure he’ll be able to do even that due to political restraints. He would need to lift all banks sanctions against Russia and the rest of the world. He would also need treaties guaranteeing that the United States and collective west will not resort to dollar banking restrictions in the future. I don’t see that happening so BRICS+ will continue to replace trading in dollars. The American Empire has delivered a fatal blow to itself. They arrogant fools in Washington have lost the great game. There’s still a few moves left to play out but the end is all but sealed. Trade war is helpful for our future but the monetary war we started was as stupid of a move as has ever been made. Russia will dictate the terms in Ukraine we will have to agree and lift all banking sanctions. Europe will need to reopen Nordstream 1 and repair Nordstream 2.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Zakharova:
“The statements of the Head of the European Commission are pure populism. Especially considering that Europe is looking for spot volumes (short-term), as it plans to significantly reduce gas consumption in the future. And short-term cargo costs the same: their price is based on the delivery market, not the origin market.
We do not know of any examples where American suppliers would supply energy resources to the market at any special prices. Consumers buy LNG at market prices, and supplies of Russian or American products are no exception.
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In the long run, US interests are not served by destroying Europe’s industrial base by cutting them off from cheap piped Russian natural gas. Impoverished allies are of little use to us, and the European political class are eventually going to realize that there is no point to being allied to the US if the cost of that alliance is their economic destruction. An impoverished Europe is also bad for us economically. The path Trump should be taking is to secure peace with Russia on the terms Putin has been offering, and then to lift sanction on Russia and normalize diplomatic and trade relations with them.
It wouldnt necessarily be a bad thing for us if the dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency and the dominant currency for international transactions. The status the dollar currently has props up its exchange value and drives our perennial trade deficit. It also enables our government to borrow enormous sums of money at low interest rates, which has encouraged our political leaders to rack up a gigantic amount of sovereign debt. The status the dollar has is one of the biggest reasons why we’ve transitioned from an economy based on making stuff to an economy based on buying imported goods with borrowed money.
Europe and especially Germany had unlimited and inexpensive NATURAL GAS from the Nordstream Pipelines yet they cheerfully allowed the pipelines to be blown up by Biden because the EU is controlled by the Green Party!
Just donated to your site. This is analysis that I don’t see anywhere else. Thank you.
There’s not enough oil for us to keep giving Europeans subsized oil. 320+ million people here. 500 million over there. Utterly impossible. They should split their needs 50/50 with America and other sources. The funny thing is that they are still buying that Russian oil, just at higher prices from other sources like India. Which is so stupid.
They better get ready to pay full price. Or completely remove all tariffs on EVERY SINGLE good we sell to them. That’s the only exception that I would accept.
The Europeans need to repair the Nordstream Pipelines and their problem is solved! According to Putin the damage was not extensive!
God it feels good that we’re about to have the grown ups back in charge, doesn’t it?
It would be more efficient logistically to fit a pipe to Globalist Ursula’s derrier. There’s enough hot air reserves up there to heat all of Europe.
Interesting analysis. I wonder about the long-term, though. Seems to me once the Ukraine nonsense is stopped, we should be encouraging Russia to move back toward Europe and away from China, which might mean encouraging their oil and gas sales westward, at the expense of keeping ours back (which, as you say, will work to the benefit of the American citizen and American manufacturing). Wouldn’t it be something if we could forget about NATO and get Russia into a firm association with the EU?
Dry gas production set a new record in 2023, and spot gas prices have since declined to multidecade lows. In October they averaged $2.20 per million British thermal units compared to a Biden era peak of $8.81 per MMBtu in August 2022.
Industry responded to rocketing prices by boosting investment in new production. But wholesale gas prices today are at rock bottom, which is causing companies to invest less in new gas output. FWIW: In October DOE forecast that 2025 spot prices will average $3.17 per MMBtu, which is still low by historical standards.
Trump is inheriting a natural gas price situation that is the best he could hope for. As Sundance pointed out, Trump’s challenge will be to create regulatory conditions to keep natural gas prices low. However, he will encounter simple industry logic:
– Industry executives will tell him that they did their part by boosting production to bring down prices caused by the Ukraine war (e.g., the Biden price spike).
– They will tell him that prices need to rise somewhat to justify investment in new production.
– They will also tell him that arbitrary restrictions on LNG exports will only throttle new investment and push prices higher.
And that’s the opposite of “drill baby drill.”
However, Trump will still be in a strong position to leverage U.S. energy dominance in negotiations with Europe over ending the Ukraine conflict. But expect the U.S. natural gas industry to howl in protest over any restrictions, actual or threatened, on U.S. gas exports.
Increased domestic manufacturing will increase demand, but it will take a while for Trump policies to have a real effect; same with renewed pipeline construction. Also, there are other countries besides Europe which will buy our LNG, so marketing will help.
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