Posted on 01/16/2018 10:51:06 AM PST by detective
Los Angeles could join New York City and other California cities in a lawsuit targeting Exxon Mobil for supposedly contributing to global warming and rising sea levels.
Two Los Angeles city council members want the city to use the courts to fleece fossil-fuel producers to mitigate the effects of global warming. They are hoping to join the likes of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced earlier this month that his city will take Exxon to court.
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I smell a shakedown. Anybody seen Jessie and Al lately?
I would hope big oil learned something from the Tobacco Industry.
Tobacco attempt to settle and it ended up costing them millions (if not billions).
Big oil has money, they should use it to go after these politicians. Do opposition research and find the skeletons and expose them. Also run ads against them. Support any candidate running against them.
Show them there will be a cost to going down this road.
Last, begin an educational campaign showing climate change is the norm for our planet, man (and by extension, oil) has nothing to do with it.
How about monitoring the plaintiffs’ use of automobiles? Argue simply that they are complicit in the problem... if indeed there’s actually a problem in the first place.
Maybe we ought to just let them rot in their pot and put a wall up along their border ... just in case.
And your proof is what, exactly.
IMHO, this will be impossible to prove in court.
Bear in mind Exxon will pay nothing to defend this suit. Exxon's shareholders and the people buying Exxon products will pay.
Exxon should just remove its product from California.
Time to start selling more gasoline in some other state and only leave the marginal (economist lingo) unsold capacity for the Californians to fight over.
A few days of gas lines will get their attention.
“Exxon should just remove its product from California.”
Yep.
Easy fix. Cut off the fuel supplies to these states. Let them walk. Fire departments can go back to the old school hand pumps or bucket brigades to put out their fires.
Next these fidiots will try suing auto makers and the consumers that own petroleum burning vehicles. Didn’t the global warming enviro freaks already try to sue the dairy industry for cow flatulents?
“I smell a shakedown. Anybody seen Jessie and Al lately?”
They are currently busy suing washing machine makers because nearly all of them are white. The appliance makers have come back staying the exterior color has been “mitigated” because the agitators in side the machines are black!
California gasoline is made to a specification required by California law. This “boutique blend” is sold nowhere else.
So why not shut down all the refineries in California?
Make everyone get electric cars!
But how do you power the electric cars?
There will be no more nuclear plants in California.
Natural gas plants? That burns methane, which contains - wait for it - eeeevvviiiilllll CARBON!
So, Moonbeam Jerry Brown, are you doing any research on getting energy from pixie dust and unicorns that crap Skittles?
Ahh, then there are those coal burning power plants in the Four Corners area. What? They burn coal? That’s bad.! Have to shut them down as well. Besides, it’s not good that the Navajos profit from coal, they need to go back to their primitive lifestyle.
Do I really need a sarcasm tag for much of this?
The flaw in this enviro-litigation craze is proof that man caused CO2 is the cause of global warming. Stronger evidence shows that the sun effects on cloud formation is the real cause.
Ok, I say all oil companies should pull out of LA.
I’m in Nevada. You can see where this is headed. They will suck us dry.
Reduce the volume and capacity of the delivery system serving California.
Give the Golden State a lesson in supply and demand.
Reduce the volume and capacity of the delivery system serving California.
Give the Golden State a lesson in supply and demand.
Will not work. Sacramento is already doing as much as they can to keep supply down (no off shore drilling, no new refineries, additional taxes at the pump)
I think the politicians would welcome a cut off of all gasoline to the state (except for themselves of course)
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