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A Supreme Court case in Hawaii could raise gas costs for us all (only 6.27 years left)
NY Post ^ | 10/12/24 | Jordan McGillis

Posted on 10/12/2024 4:39:31 PM PDT by Libloather

Aloha spirit be damned, the Hawaii Supreme Court has deemed the oil industry unwelcome in the state.

In a ruling late last year, the court affirmed that the city of Honolulu could file a lawsuit alleging that Sunoco, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, and an assortment of other companies have caused it injury via their products’ greenhouse gas emissions.

Now it may be up to the US Supreme Court to set the matter straight: Is climate change an area of special federal interest or can states give Big Oil the boot? If the latter, the outcome from 50 new sets of legal hoops is inevitably higher energy prices for all Americans.

Honolulu’s core claim is that the oil companies’ “efforts between 1965 and the present to deceive about the consequences of the normal use of their fossil fuel products” constitute tortious conduct.”

The chain of reasoning is that Sunoco et al have marketed and sold products that, when combusted, emit carbon dioxide and other gasses, exacerbating the greenhouse effect, warming the planet, melting glaciers, and causing sea levels to rise.

That rising water, the argument goes, has caused “historical, projected, and committed disruptions to the environment — and consequent injuries to the City.”

Honolulu’s claim underscores how difficult climate damage attribution really is. Yes, emissions add incrementally to sea level rise. But, no, we cannot attribute with confidence a portion of the cost of managing rising water to particular companies.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: court; gas; hawaii; supreme
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To: Libloather

Talk about being stuck on stupid......


21 posted on 10/12/2024 6:54:02 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Libloather

The Hawaii state supreme court has also ruled the 2nd amendment doesn’t apply to their state because of something called “aloha spirit”. The SCOTUS clearly needs to smack them down good and hard.


22 posted on 10/13/2024 3:30:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What, did we have a new 125M Americans in each of those years?!?


23 posted on 10/13/2024 3:38:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

No, I assumed that was the average population across all those years. It’s a quick way to do a rough estimate of benefit.


24 posted on 10/13/2024 6:42:37 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

But you gave them all an extra 25 years each year, did you not?


25 posted on 10/13/2024 6:49:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

Okay......They want to affect us all? I was US to affect them. Let’s tear down their damned INTERSTATE highway.... :0)


26 posted on 10/13/2024 6:51:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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