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US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as "freedom gas"
Call it a rebranding of "energy dominance." In a press release published on Tuesday, two Department of Energy officials used the terms "freedom gas" and "molecules of US freedom" to replace your average, everyday term "natural gas."
The press release was fairly standard, announcing the expansion of a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at the Freeport facility on Quintana Island, Texas. It would have gone unnoticed had an E&E News reporter not noted the unique metonymy "molecules of US freedom."
DOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg is quoted as saying, "With the US in another year of record-setting natural gas production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of US freedom to be exported to the world."
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @03:31PM (15 children)
this is hilarious and many of us will remember this come time to vote in 2020.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:34PM
Dumb enough to reelect 95% of these people over and over again. The numbers indicate they have it gauged pretty good.
And no major changes are expected next year.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:35PM (8 children)
Oh, they know how dumb we are. Every couple of years, they put on an almost-completely-fictional show for us, and try to shame us for not paying attention.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:00PM (7 children)
Let's not forget Freedom Fries, and the re-election of W when it was clear that Iraq's WMD were imaginary.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday May 30 2019, @06:43PM (3 children)
To be fair though, W got re-elected because the potential of same-sex marriages rose to the level of a National Emergency during W's re-erection campaign. It hadn't been such an emergency before the campaign. And surely wasn't one after.
But if W hadn't gotten elected again the possible doom of same-sex marriages might have come true, dooming us all. Thank google that W managed to permanently save us from this horrible tragedy ever becoming a reality.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:23PM
I lived in W's home turf at the time - South East Texas, and as gas prices soared in October and November I had some small sliver of hope that people would realize that they were being taken to the cleaners, but, sadly, no.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 30 2019, @08:35PM (1 child)
How do you know that? I say he got re-elected because of Swift Boat ads.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 31 2019, @01:22PM
You're right. He only campaigned on the same-sex national emergency. It is not the entire reason he won. He probably won because it was believed he needed to finish his daddy's war.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 30 2019, @06:49PM (2 children)
And now we have Freedom Gas and Trump is trying to start a war with Iran. Republicans only have one playbook it seems.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:13PM
Trump? OH, you mean Freedom President!
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday May 31 2019, @03:29PM
The odd thing is that the conservative definition of "freedom" is "You have to do what people more powerful than you tell you to do." For example, these have all been claimed to have been done in the name of "Freedom", according to their defenders:
- Cops shooting civilians.
- Unpaid overtime, wage theft, and other workplace abuses.
- Rape and sexual assault.
- Environmental damage that harms millions of people, never mind the other species.
- Loosening banking rules so they could crash the global economy.
- Drone strikes on civilians worldwide so we can steal their oil.
- Overthrow of foreign leaders that were democratically elected in favor of dictators who the US can control.
- Efforts to make it illegal to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, etc.
- Efforts to demand that everybody adhere to the Christian religion.
- Killing and jailing people over cannabis (and prior to that, alcohol).
Yeah, people really do call that "Freedom" sometimes.
This isn't a new kind of ridiculousness either: Lots of people spent the early 1860's fighting a war to defend their freedom. Many of them were fighting for the Confederacy, and these geniuses somehow saw absolutely no inconsistency between fighting for freedom and fighting for slavery.
Maybe Orwell had it backwards, and it should have been "Slavery is freedom."
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:06PM (1 child)
Somewhere in the US a 3rd grader is crying because the Dept of Energy stole his idea
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:15PM
Nice! :)
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(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:31PM (2 children)
I doubt many people will remember this next month, much less next year. Multiple new examples of human stupidity will have distracted everyone well before then..
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:22PM (1 child)
Actually, I'm guessing the vast majority will have forgotten about it before the day is over.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:16PM
What ARE you going on about?
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