Coastal cities are very butthurt about the rising sea level.
If you're insisting on this, the necessity of oil is not a constant, and it will be phased out in time. Oil companies lied to the public in order to slow this down as much as possible, and this has consequences for human health and for the economy.
Much of the economic damage we'll see through the rest of the century could have been averted at lower cost had we focused sooner on mitigation and replacement of our energy sources.
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See my reply to other guy.
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You can't blame the oil companies for intentionally making it difficult for the public to get informed? A snake oil salesman is not absolved of all responsibility because people believed him. Otherwise, why don't we just make scamming legal? Since, apparently, it makes no fucking sense to punish the scammers.
Let's replace 'sugar' with 'tobacco' and 'being fat' with 'getting cancer.' Suing tobacco companies for getting cancer happens, has happened, and has been relatively successful.
N. East is cool with no oil (pun?) but I mean we can just burn wood, right? Who needs oxygen anyways?
Disarm now correctly removes the targets’ arms.
I can't imagine any NY Judge that won't gladly find in case of the Plaintiff. Case is black and white. Oil companies bad, NYC good. Next NYC will be suing coal producing states, and then livestock farmers. The rest of the US cities will follow with their lawsuits, and then the world and if we're lucky we'll put all those companies and people out of business.
Win win for everyone! We all be riding electric buses and living the Vegan dream life.
Of course it would matter. There's already ample evidence of coverup and outright misinformation propagated by oil companies, by you guessed it, the totally legitimate and credible conservative and libertarian think tanks and foundations, for decades. This would set a precedent that would transform the companies into 21st century renewable energy leaders, or a thorough dismantling of their assets to be sold in exchange for renewable energy investment.