Given the litany of idiocies perpetrated under America’s tort law system, the last thing anyone needs is for this latest gambit to gain traction.
The Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies in state court to help cover costs associated with climate change, an issue with potentially billions of dollars at stake.
Governments from largely blue-leaning areas around the country have filed similar lawsuits seeking damages that could total billions of dollars, part of a wave of legal action worldwide seeking to leverage action through the courts.
They suing you? Stop doing business with them. Stop sending any hydrocarbons to these locations. No chemicals related to hydrocarbons to any industries either. Make it clear why.
I’m shocked that nobody has done this to California yet.
“Oh, you’re suing us for climate change? Okay then, we’re not doing business in California anymore. We don’t ship to your state, we don’t have plants in your state, we don’t pay taxes in your state, we don’t have employees in your state, nothing. Enjoy.”
Eventually, if enough companies did that, California would elect reasonable leadership.
California is already closing all their refineries anyway. They are becoming totally reliant on supplies from Asia. And Asia is cutting them off because of the Iran war shortages. California is a few steps from a real crisis.
That also includes all plastics, nylon, polyester and anything such as tents and backpacks which are made from oil by-products – also asphalt shingles.
“help cover costs associated with climate change,”
This would put “climate change” on trial. Every time that climate change has been put on trial it has lost.
Once by the Supreme Court of B.C. and once by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
NOT 1 INSURANCE COMPANY BELIEVES THIS NONSENSE MARXIST STRAW MAN CLIMATE BS
Other than for raising rates
Boulder, a town I dearly loved, now the pimple on Colorado’s ass.
I am currently wearing the U Colorado souvenir I bought when I went to a game there in 2024. Went to the Great American Beer Fest in Denver Friday, a bus tour of the Red Rocks Theater and Golden Saturday morning, and the game in Boulder Saturday night. Both Deion’s kids and their Heisman winning team mate Travis Hunter in the game. Such a good place, too bad about the politics.
Can someone in Texas sue the blue cities for making their gas price higher because of these lawsuits?
I wonder if this truly is not just a money grab, what do they envision for the future if they’re successful in running coal, gas, and oil out of town?
The ICC has already done this …
https://www.carbonbrief.org/icj-what-the-world-courts-landmark-opinion-means-for-climate-change
No, I wouldn’t be the least surprised if Chief Justice Roberts took precedent from this ruling.
The logic behind suing the O&G industry is Retarded Child Level.
Your Honor, let’s assume climate change due to oil and gas consumption is real.
The wrong people are being sued. The people who should pay damages, are the politicians who allowed oil and gas consumption to occur. No one else should pay for political mistakes.
FTFY…
Your Honor, let’s assume climate change due to oil and gas consumption is real.
The states who are suing should be cut out of the hydrocarbon loop immediately so that they can no longer break the law. In addition, they should not be allowed to cross a state line to fuel up their vehicles, nor to get wood for their newly minted stoves.
it is ‘mind boggling’ to consider how ENTRENCHED hydrocarbons are in modern society.
fuel
lubricants
transportation
exercise: add up all the 100s of Trillions of TONNES of manufactured goods and foodstuffs moved by
wait for it . . . . . . . DIESEL locomotives, all . . . . over . . . . . the . . . . . . world right from the start.
plastics oy vey all those plastic thingys . . .
including nylon. (take away the nylon insulation on any wire see whut happens)
paved roads. unlike concrete which you HAVE TO POUR RIGHT AWAY so it can start breaking up in the temperature and humidity extremes . . . . .
buuuuuuut oil must Must MUST forevermore starting tomorrow, stay in the ground?
Gang Green is just another Death Cult.
The cult of calamitous Climate,serenading us with that age old favourite “Doom,doom,doom” song.
The court should take these cases and rule according to law,which would bankrupt these grifters.
Banning them from using any consumer product that is oil based or that used carbon based fuel in its manufacture..
Little Lord Carney is one of the high priests of this cult.
These ideologues..addicts of power and corruption.
Scammers to the core.