US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom' (Guardian)

Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’

US energy department rebrands gas exports 'molecules of freedom' (BBC)

As opposed to "molecules of Putin," no doubt.
I already mentioned in another thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/295093#6831811

Is this anything like rebranding French Fries as Freedom Fries, because the US Government was pissed at the French?

>3 gilroy: I think it's a great deal like that, except that in this case, the U.S. government is pissed off that its energy majors can't build pipelines from North America to Europe, which is why it is applauding their building LNG terminals to produce gas for shipment to Europe that Europe will never buy (except, perhaps, in token amounts) on account that it's totally uneconomical.

How easily language discredits empire.

Ramping up the rhetoric to take on ideas such as the Green New Deal. 'We're patriotic. You're not. Climate be damned'.

>6 lriley: To an extent. But it's really about Nord Stream 2.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/business/poland-gas-lng-russia-usa.html

Poland may be one story, but e.g. Germany is not likely to be weaned off of Russian gas anytime soon, and attempting to force the issue for the Germans via sanctions may prove to be a catastrophic overreach.

Here's a reasonable backgrounder: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Russia-Outmaneuvers-US-LNG.html
And a timely piece: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/13/us-senate-threatens-sanctions-over-russian-...

#7--so the gist being the cold war never went away--it's just being fought on another battlefield (and again climate be damned!). There's a point in the game of chicken where you go over the cliff. Natural gas exploration and extraction just takes us closer to the edge--causes earthquakes in Oklahoma--gets into the groundwater in Pennsylvania etc. etc. So between us and the Russians we'll fuck over the planet over this stupid shit.

I didn't read the NYT piece by the way--not into subscribing to them.

Here's Platt's. Gold standard industry research. 2017-vintage, but still valid. https://www.platts.com/IM.Platts.Content/insightanalysis/industrysolutionpapers/...

ETA Wayback link. https://web.archive.org/web/20190410133421/https://www.platts.com/IM.Platts.Cont...

>1 John5918: That's a grotesque twisty mis-use of the word 'freedom.'

All "who farted" jokes curled up in embarrassment and died.