Rick Perry Make Nuisance of Self
Well, the Department of Energy finally has a plan and it’s got Rick Perry’s paw prints all over it.
You thought Rick was hiding out at the Department of Energy and staying away from headlines – meaning Trump – as much as he could.
No. He was pondering. He was pondering on what he could do that would change the world and make everybody realize that he should have been president.
He has it now, bygawd!
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg, who signed the export order and also attended the Clean Energy Ministerial, said he was “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.”
Molecules of Freedom. You know, because Freedom Fries had such staying power.
They are pushing natural gas. Natural gas leaks contribute about 1/3 of all the methane released in in the world.
All the hoopla and cute names have come about because of a petrochemical company in Quintana, Texas, a former sleepy and lovely beach town between Houston and Corpus Christi that has now become something out of a post-apocalyptic movie.
You can bet your best pair of pink boots that Rick Perry knows and has a fancy relationship with the good ole boys building this leaky empire on the beaches of Texas.
So, you see, Rick is laying low until he can go back home and be a rich, rich man who has never held a job outside the government in his whole damn life.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
Ha! Another great new idea from one more methane gasbag in DC.
1Liberated Carbon – A 3-Minute Musical History of Fossil Fuels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZ_M4rnD48
Not forgetting of course, the effervescent Gen. Jack D. Ripper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKR32ImWYzw
2So every time I fart it’s “Freedom!”
3Surprise: Perry acknowledges the existence of molecules, those tiny little gems of science.
4pRick Perry, opening his mouth and removing all doubt about the st00pid of this maladministration.
5NPR had an enviro reporter on last night who talked about current gov policy to ‘scrub’ climate change reports of the worst case projections. So the public is not informed. This admin also mandates not including projections last 2040 so no one has to see the horror that’s coming ~2050 if environmental protection regs keep getting rolled back. Only the best people, not.
6I can see in the future, billboards erected near fracking natural gas plants, like those “Pardon The Sound Of Freedom” signs near military airfields:
If You Smelt It
7Rick Perry Delt It
Europe for now is still pretty dependent in Russian natural gas, making them prey to Putin’s threats. Transporting gas from the US economically requires massive LNG ports like Quintana, specially built ships (an explosion of which would rival Texas City in 1947), and receiving ports on the other end. Perry’s DoE is desperate to convince receiving countries to build such ports. But by the time Europe built any, their conversion to renewables would be almost complete. But hey Perry would be retired by then so no harm done, right?
8pRick, the P is silent? Sounds about right. Now exsqueeze me while I go pass a few molecules of freedom.
9JFC, really, “Molecules of Freedom”?
10How about “Ions of Illegality”, “Compounds of Corruption”, “Atoms of Oligarchy”?
If something ever blows up at that LNG plant it will be like a nuke going off, it’ll light up Houston, forty miles away.
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I used to sometimes work in Freeport, Lake Jackson [and Angleton, Alvin, Brazoria], stayed in Freeport on a channel, with the world’s biggest and most aggressive mosquitoes [only Boca Chica-South Bay’s zancudos compare].
Went fishing down to Quintana Beach sometimes, way back then it made a sleepy place like Port Isabel [pop then ~2000] look like a giant metropolis, even Galveston’s West End was huge in comparison. Brazoria County’s population has more than doubled since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazoria_County,_Texas
What a bloody numbskull. Not just barefaced propaganda, but propaganda for total idiots, by total idiots.
11Much methane is used for peaking plants that cover the times solar and wind power aren’t on, but increasingly that job is being done by various types of energy storage like battery, thermal and pumped water storage. Australia just canceled a peaking plant for a megawatt range Tesla Power Pack, because the electric company who also owned the natural gas supplier, was gouging consumers, making Tesla competitive. Big savings. Karma.
12With respect to your headline, let’s be fair. Rick Perry standing on a street corner looking at the Walk/Don’t Walk sign is a nuisance.
13That boy has way too much time on his hands!
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