More Incredible Stupid in California

[Carl Young]

Unlike Biden he is an articulate Liar!

As far as I know he never responded let alone apologized for his COVID hypocrisies. Like a typical leftist he thinks he is better than ordinary folk and the rules don't matter.

He is smarter than 'ordinary folk'. He knows he's lying, they don't.

The same is true of Biden.

[The Booman]

So, the state that needs big oil and uses big oil is suing big oil because the use of big oil is bad for the climate.

[Peter1469]

These types of suits have been tried before. And lost spectacularly. In one brought by New York the judge had a pre-trial hearing that was used for each sides experts to teach the court about the science of climate science. The plaintiffs came across as kooks. The oil companies lawyers did a good job showing that climate science is not a hard science.

I posted a thread about it here.

[stjames1_53]

Won't be Newsome. He'll be one of the first to bail.

Newsome doesn't eat fast foods. He eats chef-prepared foods while he lounges next to his Olympic-sized pool that he just refilled for the 9th time this year.
He'll be damned if he eats a 30 dollar kids meal.

[stjames1_53]

So, the state that needs big oil and uses big oil is suing big oil because the use of big oil is bad for the climate.

California government wants its oil for free.............screw the little people

[stjames1_53]

These law suits mirror the kind of legislation deployed by Venezuela.
Look where it got them.

[donttread]

California goes on offense against Big Oil









Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit Saturday against five major oil companies and their subsidiaries, seeking compensation for damages caused by climate change.

The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta, accuses the companies of knowing about the link between fossil fuels and catastrophic climate change for decades but suppressing and spreading disinformation on the topic to delay climate action. The New York Times first reported the case Friday.

The suit also claims that Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP — as well as the American Petroleum Institute industry trade group — have continued their deception to today, promoting themselves as “green” with small investments in alternative fuels, while primarily investing in fossil fuel products.

It seeks to create a fund that oil companies would pay into to help the state recover from extreme weather events and prepare for further effects of climate change. It argues that California has already spent tens of billions of dollars on responding to climate change, with costs expected to rise significantly.

“The companies that have polluted our air, choked our skies with smoke, wreaked havoc on our water cycle, and contaminated our lands must be made to mitigate the harms they have brought upon the State,” the suit says......


“This ongoing, coordinated campaign to wage meritless, politicized lawsuits against a foundational American industry and its workers is nothing more than a distraction from important national conversations and an enormous waste of California taxpayer resources,” API Senior Vice President and General Counsel Ryan Meyers said in a statement. “Climate policy is for Congress to debate and decide, not the court system.”

California’s legal action joins dozens of similar lawsuits brought by seven other states and many municipalities seeking to hold major polluters accountable for allegedly lying about their role in causing climate change.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...anies-00116398

They are trying to copy the MSA and other lawsuits/settlements against big tobacco. There was, however, real, definable loss for the states in the case of tobacco and real deceit in those cases. For example, as late as 1998 a tobacco exec claimed in a congressional hearing that there was no proof nicotine was addictive. More importantly they designed cigarettes to make them even more addictive. Big oil is a lot of things, but they did not design gasoline to be more destructive.

[donttread]

McDonald’s franchisee group says new California fast-food bill will cause ‘devastating financial blow’



https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/15/mcdo...food-bill.html





Circling the Drain........................

They could at lkeast exempt teenagers. Most of them don't need 20 bucks an hour

[DGUtley]

These types of suits have been tried before. And lost spectacularly. In one brought by New York the judge had a pre-trial hearing that was used for each sides experts to teach the court about the science of climate science. The plaintiffs came across as kooks. The oil companies lawyers did a good job showing that climate science is not a hard science. I posted a thread about it here.

You did, I remember. Unfortunately, as the politics changes, the science changes?

[stephenpe]

More Incredible Stupid in California

Damn when I saw the beginning of the thread title I just knew it was More Incredible Stupid in the Political Forum and someone was being honest. Sort of like Romney about his party that went batchhhittt crazy. Hell, just from all the thread titles you can see the BDS obsession and silliness..............