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The First Big Fight of the U.S. General Election Is Over LNG (Liquified Methane Gas) (heatmap.news)
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[–] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LNG (liquefied natural gas)?

[–] silence7 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's the industry version. I prefer to use 'methane' over 'natural' because it does a better job of telling people what it is.

[–] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Super interesting. Just learned something. But I guess it makes sense. Branding it as natural probably sounds better. Thx