Trump’s Anti-Nafta Stance Is on a Collision Course with Natural Gas
"The Trump administration is going to make decisions on how to sell American products, create American jobs, and if
that helps bolster the relationship with Mexico and Canada in a North America energy strategy, then there is a lot of reason to celebrate." A picture caption with an earlier version of this article misstated the share of Mexico’s electricity that is generated using American natural gas.
Carlos Pascual said that created some worry on Mexico’s part, and as a result Mexico has looked at its
"And say, ‘Please, please get the Trump administration to back off of the Nafta cancellation rhetoric and enable us to continue to have the economic boom
that natural gas has created for Texas.’" Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Mr. Trump has threatened to terminate unless he can get a "fair deal" for the United States, the authorization of natural gas exports is virtually automatic.
Such a move, according to Mr. Book, would summon what he calls a "mutually assured destruction scenario," in which American companies suffer a serious loss of income and Mexico faces an energy shortage
that could devastate the most basic functions of its capital, Mexico City.
They are also setting their sights on an old friend in a unique position to help: Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, who recently served on the board of a pipeline company
that ships natural gas to Mexico and who is now Mr. Trump’s energy secretary.
