CPR:
City attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland, California, sued five oil companies in two coordinated lawsuits on Tuesday, arguing that the courts should hold these companies responsible for climate change, and force them to financially compensate the cities for harm the plaintiffs claim those companies are causing to the planet’s environment.
The two cities are suing five of the top petroleum companies from around the world: BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobile, and Royal Dutch Shell. These local municipalities are suing them under California law for being a public nuisance.
The lawsuits use virtually identical language, like accusing the oil companies with language such as, “For decades, Defendants have known that their fossil fuels pose risks of ‘severe’ and ‘catastrophic’ impacts on the global climate through the works and warnings of their own scientists or through their trade association.”
The cities’ complaints impugn the worst possible motives to the oil companies, comparing their actions to a sustained “propaganda campaign to deceive the public” to encourage “fuel consumption at levels that (as Defendants knew) [were] certain to severely harm the public.”
The lawsuits are demanding money from the companies on a scale to offset all of the effects of climate change in those cities. While the lawsuit does not provide specific amounts, the plaintiffs could advance theories that would claim that those numbers are in the billions of dollars.
While this money grab lawsuit is working its way thru the system these companies need to shut down every station in the city and within a 50 mile radius.
Yep, phukkem.
Then I would ask, show us the proof?
Jessie Jackson is on vacay on the Left Coast?
What a stretch. This horseshit lawsuit should be laughed out of court. Failing that, all the named companies should pull out of Cali entirely and let them live with their D-cell powered battery cars.
(Sorry, Bad Brad, but I believe you were thinking about leaving anyway.)
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They should be forced to never use oil. Not even on a bus. Not even to oil there bike chain.
We have to have oil you assholes.
“I don’t need oil. I ride the bus.” — some idiot leftist actually said that.
Why. It sue the real culprit; Mother Nature? Dumb 💩💩💩💩💩.
Why ‘NOT’ sue!
Show me the damage? They haven’t been hit with hurricanes or tornadoes lately. The fire-flood-drought cycle can be shown to have existed long before the oil companies. What are they going to complain about? Excess sunshine?
I’m with joe6pak, turn off the petroleum spigot. Ship every drop of distillate out of state.
Sounds identical to the rationale behind the tobacco extortion, er, lawsuit in the 90s. It is nothing but a money grab because the Leviathan has run out of things to tax.
Annnnnnnnd with that it is very easy to see that that tax will some day dwarf the price of the product, just like cigarettes, not to mention the fabulous, massive pay-days the Legal Industry will enjoy from it!
joe6pak – Somthing even easier and quicker to do is to simply locate the gas meter in your home and move the shut-off valve on the supply side to the OFF position and flip the main breakers to OFF as well while yer at it!
Now how many of these phoney-baloney, smarmy, money-grubbing Dickhead lawyers are going to do that in their own mansions?
stop2think is actually on to the reason–The state of California (and the lawyers) are suing everyone they can think of to make money because they are so broke.
Step 1. Your Honor, we have scientific proof that climate change existed for millions of years before our oil company. Judge: Proof is valid. Case dismissed.
Step 2. All oil companies refuse to sell their product anywhere within the borders of the People’s Republic of California or to any entity that intends to sell within the PRoC.
Problem solved.
Petroleum is more than gasoline and diesel.
Please surrender all of your plastics. Smartphones, water bottles, all of that stuff.
Oh. No petroleum means no air travel. It means no UPS, USPS, FedEx shipments from amazon.
Y’all want to play hard ball? This is what hard ball looks like.
Also noticed that CITGO is not mentioned. Are there no CITGO stations in CA? CITGO is Commie Venezuela.
If they do have a presence in CA and are not included in the lawsuit it betrays the true motive.
Don’t just close the stations, moth ball the refineries and leave CA shivering in the dark this winter.
To borrow the lawsuit’s language, “For decades, Defendants have known that coddling illegal aliens through non-cooperation with ICE agents put the citizens of those cities and surrounding areas at risk of loss of life and property.” We are seeking damages in the billions to compensate for every additional illegal act of all illegal aliens protected by sanctuary city laws.
In the late 70’s I was living in Alaska and there some sort of energy crisis going on and our favorite bumper sticker was “Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark”. I know, it wasn’t very sensitive of us, but it applies here.
Yup, cut them off and shut them down. Let their ideology fuel their cars and keep their lights on. America could use a good laugh.
yet another waste of taxpayer funds. Come on lil kim, do your thing. San Fran and Oakland first. Sacramento next. idjuts, all of them
The oil companies didn’t build the roads and many of these are restricted to motorized vehicles. Who is at greater fault?
Loser pays. lol.
Oil should just leave those cities. I know oil would lose a little bit of money, but how much does it cost to hire lawyers for every nuisance lawsuit?
Just leave. Have the greenies drive 50 miles for gas and make California import plastics and cosmetics from other states. Clearly, CA is anti bidness, so take the hint and move out.