London – London (AP) – United States Ambassador Warren Stephens British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met on Friday to “transmit the priorities of the Trump administration,” after President Donald Trump He urged the United Kingdom to leave Wind energy projects and drill for oil.
The United States Embassy said that these priorities include “maximizing the American-Revade Association to advance our shared interests, such as the recently announced trade agreement and our defense and security alliance that promotes stability and prosperity throughout the world.”
The Embassy said that the meeting in 10 Downing St. was the second for the two men since Stephens, a multimillionaire investment banker and Republican donor, assumed his position on May 12.
Stephens arrived in London just after the two governments reached a commercial agreement That saw the Trump administration raise tariffs in cars, steel and aluminum of the United Kingdom in exchange for greater access to Britain for American products, including beef and ethanol.
Trump wrote on the social platform of Truth on Friday that the agreement “is working very well for everyone.”
But he advised Great Britain “that to reduce their energy costs, they stop with costly and unpleasant wind mills, and encourage modernized perforation in the North Sea, where large amounts of oil expected to be taken.”
He said that the North Sea had “a century of drilling, with Aberdeen as Hub”, and said that “the energy costs of the United Kingdom would go down a lot and fast!” With more oil extraction.
One of the two Scottish golf courses of the president, Trump International Golf Links, is close to Aberdeen.
Great Britain is investing strongly in wind farms, since it seeks to generate the entire country. Energy of renewable sources for 2030 and freeing what Starmer has called “the roller coaster of international fossil fuel markets.”
The Trump administration is doing the opposite – Prioritize fossil fuelsincluding coal impulse, Cancel clean energy financing and climate friendly projects, and directed to the wind industry.
In contrast to his words about Britain, Trump threatened Friday to impose a 50% taxes on all EU importssaying that trade speaks with the 27 -nations block “are not going anywhere.”
