Trump's Department of Energy is now calling fossil fuels 'molecules of U.S. freedom.' Seriously.

The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been mostly about making Donald Trump’s personal interests money, while making the fossil fuel industry a few more bucks as we all slowly boil in our environmental hotbox. On Tuesday, the Department of Energy released an article titled, “Department of Energy Authorizes Additional LNG Exports from Freeport LNG, Advances commitment to U.S. jobs, economic growth, clean energy.” In it, Trump’s DOE lays the groundwork to “rebrand” some of our current administration’s business interests as patriotic interests. Quoting U.S. Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes on the expansion of the Freeport LNG facility, Menezes says, “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.” [emphasis added]

Don’t stand too close to the freedom or you might get burnt...or suffocated.

Spreading. Freedom. Gas. But it’s even more than just gas, according to the DOE. This is freedom down to its smallest particles. As Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg explained:

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 regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world.

Excuse me while I spray some Febreze around here … the stench of "freedom" is a little sweaty. Environmentalist candidate and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee seemed shocked that he wasn’t reading an Onion headline.

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This has to be a joke. (Remember freedom fries?) https://t.co/ei9Idg613X

— Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) May 29, 2019

The Trump administration is trying to turn fascistic lemons into fascistic lemonade. The announcement itself is that the Houston-based Freeport LNG has been granted permits by the Trump administration to “build a fourth liquefaction plant at its facility on Quintana Island, about 70 miles south of Houston on the Gulf Coast,” and export their natural gas around the world. Now, when Europeans hear the fossil fuel energy say “Pull my finger,” they will know that the results will be freedom just filling up the room.

from Daily Kos http://bit.ly/2JOaW2Z