What did Donald Trump claim about climate and energy on 14 May 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
In the past 2 years, we've expanded our LNG exports to the world by nearly 500 percent. Five hundred percent. And it was heading south, folks. It was heading south fast.
LNG exports were climbing fast, not falling, when he took office. They rose from 16.3 billion cubic feet in 2014 to 28.4 billion in 2015 and 186.8 billion in 2016, Obama's last full year, an increase of about 558 percent in that one year.
U.S. liquefied natural gas exports were 16,255 million cubic feet in 2014, 28,381 in 2015 and 186,841 in 2016, then 707,542 in 2017 and 1,083,118 in 2018. (U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports, annual)
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- Remarks at the opening of Sempra Energy's Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry, Louisiana.
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