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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) by krishnoid on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:15PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday May 30 2019, @07:15PM (#849396)

    What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,

    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.

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