Trump’s Anti-Nafta Stance Is on a Collision Course with Natural Gas
“He understands the energy business quite well, and it gives me great comfort that he is in that position.”
Last month, the Trump administration gave Congress official notice
that it planned to renegotiate Nafta, a pact that the president has called “the worst trade deal ever.”
Then this month, the American Petroleum Institute, one of the strongest lobbies in Washington, made its position unmistakably clear in an open letter to the administration stating
that “the current NAFTA agreement works for the oil and gas industry.”
Mr. Perry says he understands the symbiotic nature of the relationship between Mexico
and American energy companies, and he has promised to do what he can to maintain it.
“But the first screams that would go up if the U. S. were to cut off natural
gas shipments to Mexico would come from the oil and gas producers in Texas.”
At least 17 pipelines currently carry more than four billion cubic feet of natural gas a day to Mexico, with four
additional cross-border pipelines to be completed over the next two years and many more in the planning phase
