Europe has already doubled the import of oil from the US (and quadrupled that of LNG)

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For energy supplies, Europe is still a long way from cutting the umbilical cord with Russia. But purchases of oil and gas from the United States are already running at record levels, never reached since Washington – in the middle of the last decade – returned to exporting hydrocarbons.

Imports of stars and stripes LNG in particular have literally exploded: the Old Continent (including Great Britain and Turkey) received 16.1 million tons of fuel from the US …