We hope this is the last time that the US Trump administration engages in direct lies to the public, any public, but in this case the European audience for the Observer newspaper. US secretary of state for energy Dan Brouillette has written an “energy illiterate” letter telling us all that the way to solve EU energy problems is to buy the dirtiest fuel in the world, fracked LNG from the US. This was his response to French firm Engie pulling out of a deal to import US LNG which we published on November 5th, with Engie pulling out of a $7 billion deal to source LNG from NextDecade of Houston, a deal which would have underwritten the creation of a…