U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks to reporters during a briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 27, 2017.
Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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 LNG—located on Texas’ Quintana Island—would 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 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.
Steven Winberg, who serves as the Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, called the gas “molecules of freedom.”
“With the U.S. 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 […]
I saw refrence to ‘freedom gas’ and “molecules of freedom.” on Twitter this morning and frankly couldn’t believe it.
Thanks for sharing the news article…You are right it is hard for fiction to keep up;
BTW Stephan– Rivera Sun’s Dandelion Insurrection is still misunderstood as being about a far future oligarchic state…truth is that virtually every refrence to authoritarian government/ oligarchic rule was already being practiced and was legal somewhere in the USA 6 years ago when the book was written. Most of the draconian laws don’t get enforced on white mid/upper income people that comply and are never noticed by that class
One of my Twitter followers just reminded me of “atoms for peace” part of the sales pitch to create 1000 planned reactors in the USA.