The coming made-in-US oil crunch: Energy diplomacy rests on supply illusion

At a Senate hearing on September 12, Sergio Gor, Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to India, said that Washington would push New Delhi to buy more American crude oil, refined products, and LNG as part of ongoing trade talks. This is not new. For the past two years, Mr Trump and his team have pressed India and other nations to stop buying Russian oil and shift to US barrels. 

Energy demands in every deal 

Washington has embedded energy-purchase pledges into its recent trade deals. The European Union has promised to buy roughly $750