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

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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @06:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @06:10PM (#849375)

    Which was entirely driven by propaganda and fearmongering by none other than the Hursts... before the 20th century had even begun!

    None of the current American activities are that far removed from the sort of fearmongering and rhetoric that surrounded that War, or the the collateral damage (much like the Opening of Japan) that was caused by our shortsighted activities that destabilized a foreign nation for the profiteering of the American Merchant-Prince class. Machiavelli would be proud, particularly given how often they get away with it without the criminal and financial investigations that put him under.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @09:33PM (#849434)

    Which was entirely driven by propaganda and fearmongering by none other than the Hursts... before the 20th century had even begun!

    I know, right? That Hurst [hurstreview.com] is a real piece of work, huh?

    Oh, wait. You're not talking about prepping for your NCLEX exam?

    Perhaps you meant William Randolph Hearst [wikipedia.org]?

    Then again, those NCLEX exams are such a hotbed of graft and corruption aren't they?