https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding?fbclid=IwAR2vdbXsxFBM_VWdNrRyZMp3V_oGzXpDzPnXyuKK5_FrVf_VciJT_BRpdP0
Mark W Menezes, the US undersecretary of energy, bestowed a peculiar
honorific on our continent’s natural resources, dubbing it “freedom gas”
in a release touting the DoE’s approval of increased exports of natural
gas produced by a Freeport LNG terminal off the coast of Texas.
“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,” he said.
It’s unclear if members of the Trump administration attempting to
assign patriotic intentions to natural gas are aware of the silliness of
the concept, but Rick Perry seems to believe in it.
“Seventy-five
years after liberating Europe from Nazi Germany occupation, the United
States is again delivering a form of freedom to the European continent,”
the energy secretary said earlier this month, according to EURACTV.
“And rather than in the form of young American soldiers, it’s in the form of liquefied natural gas.”
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