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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, @07:02PM (10 children)
And other typos such as "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected."
Clearly he meant "I had nothing to do with Russia NOT helping me to get elected." Which is a true statement since Republicans are actively prohibiting the government from securing our elections.
And yes, they really are using that same tired excuse AGAIN. [newsweek.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 30 2019, @08:03PM (1 child)
I think he actually meant "I had nothing better to do so that Russian was helping me get erected".
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:19PM
May all your showers be Golden.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday May 30 2019, @10:21PM (7 children)
I think a more worrying trend would be this other article on that site. https://www.newsweek.com/meghan-mccain-donald-trump-john-uss-1439772 [newsweek.com] Hiding a ship because you think the leader doesn't like the name is some third-world narcissistic-dictator level shit.
It's actually less worrying if Trump ordered it, he'll be gone in less than six years and who cares if he doesn't like a particular ship.
If the administration is starting to act like that, then things are just fucked. It is indicative of an attitude that the leaders are special little snowflakes who can't face reality. Once you have that attitude in the middle ranks, the upper levels will just get more and more detached from reality.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 30 2019, @11:48PM (3 children)
That ship sailed years ago.
Anytime an American leader visits my country (not often thank the gods) a huge area of the CBD area of our largest city gets closed to the public, and when they drive anywhere whole roads are closed for them. People are literally told not to go to work.
That also includes ex-leaders of your country.
There is no way we would ever threat our own leaders with such deference, but it is SOP for your guys.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday May 31 2019, @12:11AM (2 children)
Not my leaders, I'm an aussie. :).
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday May 31 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
Oh, fair enough mate.
When your bloke comes over someone at the airport offers him a lift to the bus stop up the road, and he's pretty grateful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 31 2019, @02:43PM
Yeah right. I suppose he also gets the good looking ewe with the soft wool too.
I bet you bastards make him walk to the bus stop.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday May 30 2019, @11:59PM (1 child)
Besides, if you want to make a ship disappear, there are better ways to do it [youtube.com].
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday May 31 2019, @12:33AM
My point wasn't about the ship, but the attitude behind what was done.
It is an indication that people are not telling their superiors the truth. It always happens a bit, but any organization where it becomes the norm, and telling the truth is punished, will eventually collapse. Might be slow with a large organization like a government, but when they are no longer operating in the real world collapse is inevitable.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday May 31 2019, @10:14AM
It would appear that it is exactly what you feared.
“Now, somebody did it because they thought I didn’t like him, O.K.?” Mr. Trump told reporters. “They were well meaning, I will say. I didn’t know anything about it. I would never have done that.” Donald Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lets-not-upset-the-president-the-white-house-tells-the-navy-to-hide-the-uss-mccain/ar-AAC9aNl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=BHEA000 [msn.com]
American Politics are the 24 hour a day tragicomedy. If offered as a plotline for a TV show or movie, producers would laugh you out of the building. Idiocracy was supposed to be a dystopian comedy, not an instruction manual.
I wish I didn't have a front row seat, but this type of shit is spreading, soon we'll all have front row seats.
Thank god weed is legal now (here anyway).
Invest in popcorn!
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