Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Friday that President Trump’s pursuit of “energy dominance” is a mission to export freedom globally by being a top producer of natural gas.
“We just don’t export American [liquefied natural gas (LNG)] around the world, we export freedom,” Perry said on Friday while addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference being held just outside of Washington in Oxon Hill, Md.
The countries that receive U.S. energy in the form of LNG “are free from countries that would place those countries’ values in jeopardy,” he said.
Perry called “exporting freedom” a new U.S. mission for the 21st century.
The U.S. became a net natural gas exporter in 2017, and is projected to be a net oil exporter in 2020.
Perry said the benefits of the energy boom has to do with President Trump’s deregulation agenda, which has gotten government out of the way of industry to support the shale energy boom.
Under the previous administration, the idea was to “regulate our way into nirvana,” which Perry called “a fallacy.”
