It’s gas.
It is totally apolitical.
It is not a source of patriotism. It makes machinery run, heats homes and cooks food.
It is not something to which we pledge allegiance.
It’s gas.
Back when the United States, based on John Bolton’s cooked up evidence, went after Iraq because Saudi Arabian citizens attacked the World Trade Center, there was a need to fire up the country to accept that the upcoming eternal war was justified. If you didn’t play along, you might as well have piloted the planes into the towers.
France was not convinced it should get involved and sat the Iraq War out, and anything with the word “French” in its name was renamed for ‘Merca in the name of patriotism.
French fries became “Freedom Fries” (freedom from whom?), as if that made them taste different and more patriotic, and, although French toast was an American invention by a guy named French, it was rechristened as “Freedom Toast”. To punish France we attacked an American.
In public, perhaps, people might play along with the faux patriotism, but secretly, in the dark, in our homes, in whispered conversation, they remained French fries and French toast.
And now we are at it again, as the Brander in Chief’s administration has rebranded natural gas as “freedom gas”, and exporting U.S. natural gas is “spreading freedom gas throughout the world”, referring to it as “molecules of US freedom”.
At a meeting in Brussels, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry explained that doubling U.S. liquefied natural gas shipments to Europe by 2020 would decrease Europe’s using LNG from Russia.
“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.”
So now “Freedom Gas” is a Department of Energy talking point, and the fossil fuel industry is the paragon of freedom.
I guess the Green New Deal and anyone who promotes the use of renewable energy are unpatriotic and are turning their backs on the “Land of the free”?