In announcing increased exports of a vital fuel, Energy Dept. officials also renamed liquefied natural gas 'molecules of U.S. freedom.'
"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," it quoted Energy Undersecretary Mark Menezes as saying in explaining why the Energy Department was approving expansion of exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG.
Liquefied natural gas is a big deal right now. The United States and China have been in a trade war ever since President Donald Trumplast year, to which the Chinese government responded by raising tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods. U.S. jobs are at stake, and in a tradition stretching back more than a century, the United States is deploying heavy ammunition: the dictionary."Freedom gas" and"molecules of U.S. freedom" join a long history of patriotic renaming of goods and products associated with countries with which the United States isn't on particularly good terms with.
with little fanfare three years later. Less well remembered is that the cafeteria also renamed French toast — which dates to a fourth- or fifth-century book of Roman recipes called"Apicius" and was popularized in France during the 15th century — as"freedom toast.
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