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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, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 30 2019, @06:17PM (1 child)
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right."
--George Orwell, 1984
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,”
--The 45th President of the United States of America
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:15PM
Oh thank God. I thought was seeing this guy in the Oval Office and Republicans in the US legislature strongly supporting everything he was saying and doing -- thanks for clarifying that I'm just hallucinating.