
President Donald Trump has urged the European Union to step up its purchases of crude oil and liquefied natural gas from the U.S. if it wants to avoid tariffs on all imports. “The one thing they can do quickly is buy our oil and gas,” Trump told media on Monday, as quoted by Bloomberg. “We will straighten that out with tariffs, or they have to buy our oil and gas.” On his first day in office, the president lifted a so-called pause on new LNG export terminal construction that the Biden administration imposed on the industry…