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Fossil Fuels are Now "Freedom Gas"

posted by martyb on Thursday May 30 2019, @03:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the comes-from-eating-too-many-Freedom-Fries dept.

takyon writes:

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: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:40PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:40PM (#849332)

    Molecules of US freedom, it's what Iran and Venezuela crave !

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  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Friday May 31 2019, @02:53AM (1 child)

    by arslan (3462) on Friday May 31 2019, @02:53AM (#849597)

    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

      by J_Darnley (5679) on Friday May 31 2019, @10:20AM (#849733)

      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.