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.
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.
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?
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.