'Molecules of freedom': Trump's Energy Dept calls natural gas 'freedom gas' in press release
Source: Raw Story
Molecules of freedom: Trumps Energy Dept calls natural gas freedom gas in press release
By Tana Ganeva - May 29, 2019
As head of the Department of Energy, former Texas Governor Rick Perry oversees natural gas exports.
On Tuesday, the Department announced that a Texas company called Freeport LNGlocated on Texas Quintana Islandwould get approval to export natural gas to foreign countries, reports Business Insider.
In the press release announcing the deal, the Energy Department got lyrical about the natural energy source, calling natural gas freedom gas.
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving Americas allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy, Under Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes said in a statement included in the release.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/molecules-of-freedom-trumps-energy-dept-calls-natural-gas-freedom-gas-in-press-release/
The Department of Energy referred to natural gas as 'freedom gas' in a press release
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A Tuesday press release from the Department of Energy authorizing new natural gas exports referred to the gas as "freedom gas," a signal of how the Department views domestic natural gas production as a tool to spread prosperity and liberty.
The release announced the Department's approval of new foreign exports of natural gas from a terminal owned and managed by natural gas company Freeport LNG located on Texas' Quintana Island.
"Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy," Under Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes said in a statement included in the release.
Later on in the release, Steven Winberg, who serves as the Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, additionally characterized the gas as "molecules of freedom."
More:
https://www.businessinsider.com/department-of-energy-calls-natural-gas-freedom-gas-2019-5
TygrBright
(20,773 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Is that you can fart all you want and no one knows that it's you.
That, my friend, is real "freedom gas".
trusty elf
(7,402 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I set free some gas on occasion.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)after having consumed too many freedom fries?
Archae
(46,359 posts)(They renamed sauerkraut this during WW1.)
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Aristus
(66,478 posts)Stick a little sign reading: 'FREEDOM' in a pile of dogshit, and right-wingers will gobble it down and beg for more...
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)marble falls
(57,355 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Rebranding natural gas Will has as much lasting impact as relabeling French fries freedom fries. Its stupid, its embarrassing, and its going to last one news cycle.
NickB79
(19,276 posts)Freedom....from arable land and fresh water.
Freedom.....from rainforests.
Freedom.....from coral reefs.
Freedom for our children and grandchildren..... from living.
ancianita
(36,160 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I can use this to highlight the fact that the info being presented is complete and utter horseshit cloaked in fake patriotism. (Remember Freedom Fries, because France didn't support the invasion?)
Nitram
(22,913 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)Do the coal guys in WV know about this? They're not that happy about fracked gas.
eggplant
(3,915 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)the gas oil industry owns us.
Marthe48
(17,047 posts)In 2003, France opposed going to war with Iraq. So the repuke oppressors at the time tried to stir up nationalism by proclaiming that from then forward, 'muricans would call French fries freedom fries. My husband said they could freedom kiss his ass. This idiocy reminds me of that idiocy.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)A scam is afoot
maddogesq
(1,245 posts)I have some freedom gas that I would like to release in response to this utter BS.😎
JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)"Lobbyist money".
Bless his patriotic little heart.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)"Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
Fart, and you fart alone..."
riversedge
(70,350 posts)Totally appalled!
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding
spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving Americas allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy, Every day another tRump lie is re-branded truth. #TrumpResignNow
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