Posted on 08/24/2019 9:18:41 AM PDT by rktman
Promoting his newly unveiled $16.3 trillion "Green New Deal," 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders called for drastic action against oil companies.
"Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused," he wrote Thursday on Twitter.
Sanders boasts his plan will reverse a climate "crisis" he likens to the crisis President Franklin Roosevelt faced when he launched the New Deal. The Vermont senator promises it will create 20 million jobs and achieve "100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization by at least 2050."
He says America must "directly invest a historic $16.3 trillion public investment toward these efforts, in line with the mobilization of resources made during the New Deal and WWII, but with an explicit choice to include black, indigenous and other minority communities who were systematically excluded in the past."
The plan will "pay for itself" over 15 years, he contends, warning the price of inaction is far greater.
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What laws have they broken? Our Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws so even if Bernie were to get some law on the books against the oil companies the executives could not be prosecuted. What Bernie is proposing is right out of Joe Stalins playbook
Time to RED FLAG Bernie to the police. He’s a menace to society and might go bonkers on someone he thinks is an oil executive.
he needs a nice padded cell with pictures of Lenin, Stalin, Khruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Putin all around, laughing at him.
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