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This makes me embarrassed to be an American, not because of all the horrific externalities of natural gas, but because it’s just so tasteless. “freedom gas” so
by itsaidpens 7y ago
This makes me embarrassed to be an American, not because of all the horrific externalities of natural gas, but because it’s just so tasteless.
“freedom gas” sounds like a Yankee Candle scent.
- oh_sigh 7y agoIt's a jokey bit of a statement. It's not that big of a deal. And if you consider that buying "freedom molecules" over wahabbist molecules, you actually are voting with your dollars to some extent to give money to freedom and not despotism.
- MBCook 7y ago> ...Newspeak usage follows most of the English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Yep. Nothing to see here. No possible consequence to this kind of thing.
- scottLobster 7y agoMeh, I laughed, and I'm sure the people who wrote "molecules of freedom" did too. And given that the natural gas boom is a big part of forthcoming American energy independence, calling it "freedom gas" is somewhat accurate.