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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:37PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:37PM (#849357) Journal

    Surely it was tongue-in-cheek? I laughed out loud when I heard it, and it's certain the guys who penned it were laughing, too.

    I am eager for the United States to get away from fossil fuel nonsense, but it is not bad that the country has become a net energy exporter. That's something it's never been in my lifetime. Also, there are large swathes of the country that were previously desolate that now have oil and natural gas operations breathing new life into them. From the perspective of economic equity it's good to see. It's been about a century since most of them have felt like they could catch a break.

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  • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:48PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 30 2019, @05:48PM (#849363) Journal

    I like to think it is an Isaac Arthur reference.
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    11:25 in the episode "The Fermi Paradox & Virtual Worlds: Colonizing Inner Space"
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    "Physicality and reality are not inextricably entwined. There are no atoms of justice, no molecules of freedom or art... [youtube.com]"

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 30 2019, @09:51PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday May 30 2019, @09:51PM (#849437) Journal

    If methane is the freedom molecule, BFR is the freedom rocket.

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