Berlin Airlift: USLNG Can Help Europe

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Mike Soraghan (March 09): Prior to the war in Ukraine, Europe got more than a third of its gas from Russia. If Europeans wean themselves from that, American gas producers and exporters of LNG say they can help fill the gap in the years ahead. Anne Bradbury of AXPC: “There’s a huge opportunity to counter Russian aggression. It’s important that we’re able to step up and support our allies.” In a joint letter to Biden last month, LNG Allies and AXPC compared supplying more gas to some of the biggest U.S. foreign policy successes of the postwar era—the Berlin Airlift and the Marshall Plan.

The joint letter that compared exports to the Berlin Airlift pointed to the FERC pipeline policy and the administration’s pause on permits to drill on public land as discouraging to new oil and gas development. “Just the perception that production will be constrained often leads to higher prices,” the groups wrote. Link to Content