Kinder Morgan Founder Plays Down the Impact of Tariffs on U.S. LNG

Richard Kinder doesn’t lose sleep over trade wars or chatbots. The billionaire co-founder of Kinder Morgan waved off the industry handwringing over U.S.-China LNG tariffs and the supposedly overhyped energy appetite of AI data centers. “Our view is that any loss of the Chinese market will be more than offset by the efforts of governments in the EU and Asia to increase the imports of US LNG,” he said on the company’s recent Q1 earnings call. Translation: let Beijing play tariff tag—Kinder’s pipelines are still…