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, Funny) by SomeGuy on Thursday May 30 2019, @03:47PM (5 children)
More like Idiocracy...
Would you like to try our EXTRA BIG-ASS FREEDOM GAS? Now with more MOLECULES!
FAAAAAAAAAAAAARTT!!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:40PM (2 children)
Molecules of US freedom, it's what Iran and Venezuela crave !
(Score: 2) by arslan on Friday May 31 2019, @02:53AM (1 child)
Sounds like something they serve in Guantanamo Bay or whatever its equivalent is nowadays
(Score: 3, Insightful) by J_Darnley on Friday May 31 2019, @10:20AM
Gitmo's current equivalent is still Gitmo. No president has had the balls necessary to close it down. Maybe some more got started that we are unaware of yet.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:46PM
Pull finger for freedom.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @09:27PM
Avogadro [wikipedia.org] would like to have a word with you...