A judge could be a wiseass and issue an injunction barring any oil shipments into the state in question to avoid a conflict of interest.
>> New York City et al
The audacity.
Any city wanting to sue big oil should prove it’s merit by going 1 year fossil fuel free, citizens included. Then I think I’d be up to hearing the lawsuit. Of course there wouldn’t be much of a city left...
“...oil companies should pay to protect the cities’ residents from the impacts of climate change.”
Which residents? The homeless? The illegal aliens? The fleeing businesses? The tourists that no longer visit? The actual tax-paying citizens?
Here is the left’s conundrum:
If this were to actually go to trial, the oil companies would have a right to present evidence that AGW is a farce. It would be a lot like the Scopes trial. It may be easy to convince a lot of people in the court of public opinion that man made global warming is real, but the rules in a courtroom are much different.
And a side issue: Don’t forget, it is the people USING the legal product that are causing the “problem”. If the state thinks they are harming the planet, by all means, sue them. :)
What a silly shakedown attempt.
Thwarted!
LOLARMAOOTF
Those cities were built using petroleum. Typical childish liberal: Now that we have what we want, we want no one else to have it too.
Here in Colorado, the liberal’s moved into the Evergreen foothills community, screwing it up. They then tried to create a “growth plan” to exclude everyone else.
Typical liberals.
It's just a shame that this wise jurist didn't deign to inform us exactly which of the "political branches" had juristiction over the sun.
AND.....
Trump just won on the Travel Ban in the USSC!!!!