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RonZeplin
05-30-2019, 06:10 PM
US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas” (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/us-department-of-energy-is-now-referring-to-fossil-fuels-as-freedom-gas/)

The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.

Call it a rebranding of "energy dominance." (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-unleashing-american-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 (https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-authorizes-additional-lng-exports-freeport-lng), 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 (https://twitter.com/ellengilmer/status/1133539221468196864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1133539221468196864&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fbusiness%2F2019% 2F05%2Ffreedom-gas-molecules-of-freedom-department-of-energy.html) 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.”

Also in the press release, US Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes refers to natural gas as "freedom gas" in his quote: “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."

Slate notes (https://slate.com/business/2019/05/freedom-gas-molecules-of-freedom-department-of-energy.html) that the term "freedom gas" seems to have originated from an event with DOE Secretary Rick Perry. Earlier this year, the secretary signed an order to double the amount of LNG exports to Europe, saying, “The United States is again delivering a form of freedom to the European continent. And rather than in the form of young American soldiers, it’s in the form of liquefied natural gas.”

A reporter at the order signing jokingly asked whether the LNG shipments should be called "freedom gas," and Perry said, "I think you may be correct in your observation."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/us-department-of-energy-is-now-referring-to-fossil-fuels-as-freedom-gas/

Swordsmyth
05-30-2019, 06:21 PM
US energy department rebrands gas exports 'Freedom Gas' (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?535078-US-energy-department-rebrands-gas-exports-Freedom-Gas) Started by Zippyjuan (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?17293-Zippyjuan), Yesterday

Swordsmyth
05-30-2019, 06:21 PM
The US Department of Energy has authorized additional exports of domestically produced natural gas from the Freeport LNG Terminal (https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Department-Of-Energy-Authorizes-Freeport-LNG-Exports.html) in Texas, according to a DOE press release from Tuesday, but the press release is garnering additional attention for its coining of the phrase “freedom gas (https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-authorizes-additional-lng-exports-freeport-lng)” when referring to this LNG.
“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. Further, more exports of U.S. LNG to the world means more U.S. jobs and more domestic economic growth and cleaner air here at home and around the globe,” US Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes said at a Clean Energy Ministerial in Canada this week as cited in the press release.
The press release further uses the phrase “molecules of U.S. freedom” in referring to the fossil fuel.
The use of the phrase in the quirky press release was quickly bandied about on Twitter.
While likening natural gas to freedom managed to raise some eyebrows, the onslaught of US LNG exports to other countries will provide alternate sources (https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/EU-Promises-To-Double-US-LNG-Imports-Within-5-Years.html) of the fuel to countries who may otherwise have a single—or limited—supply choice.
Regardless of whether you call it LNG or freedom gas, US LNG is taking the world by storm, with the US FERC approving (https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-authorizes-additional-lng-exports-freeport-lng) in April two LNG projects including the Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG terminal and pipeline in Louisiana, and Sempra Energy’s Port Arthur LNG facility in Texas. Both of these projects are set to deliver first LNG in 2023. But that’s not all. As many as ten additional LNG projects are still in the queue waiting for FERC approval.
US LNG export capacity is set to double by end 2019 from end 2018, reaching 8.9 billion cubic feet per day. This would make the United States the third largest LNG exporter in the world behind Australia and Qatar, according to the EIA (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37732).


https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...G-Exports.html (https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Dept-of-Energy-Authorizes-More-LNG-Exports.html)