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Big Oil's climate lies are fueling the insurance affordability crisis — and the costs are falling on disaster survivors and residents. A new bill from @scottwiener.bsky.social aims to make Big Oil pay. "We can’t allow Californians, our residents, our small businesses, to be left holding the bag."

fresnobee.comNew bill aims to allow California AG to sue oil companies for disaster costs“We can’t allow Californians, our residents, our small businesses, to be left holding the bag,” said the author of the measure.

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They be like, how can we make a profit if we have to clean up after ourselves. Isn't that what the sucker middle class is there for - our clean-up piggy bank?

US crony capitalism where the filthy rich corporate owners buyout the politicians... socialized costs, privatized profits Dirty energy has always been hugely more expensive than green energy despite green energy not having the nationwide infrastructure needed to lower costs.

That is a childish tactic used by middle schoolers on the playground at recess. Republicans seem to love nicknames. Trump has the brain of a child. A psychopathic child. That's why he is so dangerous to the world.

He threw trans people under the bus and his idea of solving the homeless crisis is to throw away their belongings and either arrest or move them somewhere else And the biggest social issue of them all, he's against a miniscule, one time, billionaire tax that would benefit his entire state

Surely residents, small business and the rest of us cannot be blamed. We didn't use fossil fuels, did we? We didn't buy natural gas when it was cheaper than electricity, did we? We didn't buy big SUVs and Pickups never knowing we were polluting the air with all the driving we did, did we? Etc.

Republicans rape kids. Democrats feed kids. NOT THE SAME. FDT - 86 47 - DJT=POS - Fuck MAGA - GOP=Guardians of Pedophiles Melania is a russian whore. Epstein had her first. 🤮Republicans are 💯 responsible. Never forgive! ANTIFA AF

Can we make some laws about how many times an insurance company will pay to rebuild a family farm built in a 100 yr flood plain which now because of climate change is a 2 yr flood plain. My insurance rates goes up because they rebuild/flood/rebuild/flood/rebuild flood.... My rates = my risks

Big Oil doesn't seem to care that Mississippians will pay the health costs of an increasing number of asthma and cancer patients due to Venezuelan oil being processed at Miss. refineries. This is due to the amount of methane released into the air being "roughly six times above the world average."

apnews.comWhy boosting production of Venezuela's 'very dense, very sloppy' oil could harm the environmentEnvironmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a cou...

If possible, it certainly would be justice. But, has petroleum EVER really paid for anything they damaged? Even when there was direct evidence for assign cause to them?

California fixed the problem by attacking fossil fuel. So two more major oil companies are leaving California. No more pollution but gas prices nearly 2x the national average now. Possible to get to $7-$10/gal in the summer with California’s special blend of gasoline. Need to import expensive gas.

The oil companies excel at getting the government to pay for what they have done, and the disasters they cause. This is long over due, and should be implemented in all states.

It's the master Project 25plan. Unload on the 'regular people' and the rich get away with murder, rape, pedophilia, theiving bitcoins, one grift after another. Trump Club for Repubs Bring Your Moneybags full for the Pedo President.

I agree. But let's be honest. Local and State governments have done a crappy job by zoning unsuitable areas for development. Then wasted taxpayer money by rebuilding areas hit by environmental disasters instead of rezoning them as they should be and helping people to relocate.

Taxpayers are forced to hand BIG OIL FEDERAL TAX SUBSIDES. Carter told US about Climate change. Oil Barons purchased legislators. #BanOilLeases of America's land that oil leaves polluted. Then we pay for clean up😡. Enough is enough. Tax back oil.

It all comes back to the illegitimate, corrupt, criminal felon in the WH & his enablers who all need to go now! The fish rots from the head. Also this ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/no2t...

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Thanks be to our Heavenly Father, Yahweh, for Blue States AG for taking on Team Trump bad and corrupt policies against We the People. If the Dems failed to win control of the US House or Senate in Congress, My family will be moving to Blue State that will protect our Human Rights and Freedom.

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Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

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This is another totally ridiculous thing. Scientists have proven it over and over again. Why do so many deny the facts. Is it an illness or lack of education? Don't let the oil companies gaslight you. Climate change is real.

Thank you! And what about Insurance companies tripling or canceling home insurance coverage for anyone who lives near a coastline, desert, mountain, or pine tree- due to fire & flood risk increasing from climate change caused by fossil fuel companies? People can’t sell without insurance!!!

That's the only dream I have left: a future where children can grow and eat vegetables grown in soil composted by the corpses of Boomers and GenXers. I will self compost since I am of that cohort.

Nevada legislators don't have such scruples. They're the most corrupt pieces of 💩 in the West & don't give a damn what predators do to ordinary people under their misrule.

Like with big tobacco before it, if you gather proof that they knew what they were doing and chose to cover it up, there is a fighting chance of winning a settlement.

You know what Jim Stanley of Western States Petroleum Association didn’t argue? That there was NOT “..a decades-long, coordinated campaign of deception launched and orchestrated by major fossil fuel companies”. Read more at: www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...

fresnobee.comNew bill aims to allow California AG to sue oil companies for disaster costs“We can’t allow Californians, our residents, our small businesses, to be left holding the bag,” said the author of the measure.

It's not the people selling the oil. It's the rest of us putting it into the air via car engine. If they sued assholes who idle in front of their house while texting on someone else's wi-fi, they'd balance California's budget.

The system is rigged for the rich in America, and indeed around the world. People like Musk produce or make nothing, they merely skim the cream of the labor of millions who do the actual work. Then they use the enormous wealth to but laws, politicians and elections.

Gavin probably will sign it, they done chased most of the refineries out. Start litigation against the rest will push fuel prices up to benefit electrical vehicles. Everyone else can just walk.

We should all do that. If they don't want to pay taxes or do the right thing for humanity and the planet, then we will have to force them into in via taxation, the best controller of bad behavior that republicans think is government over reach, but are protections for humans against the greedy.

"We can’t allow Californians, our residents, our small businesses, to be left holding the bag." That's how the economy works, silly. Big Business incurs costs, customers are compelled to carry them. Otherwise there is insufficient revenue and no Big Businesses.

Taxpayers will pay for the lawsuits - hey California how about you fund tech to replace oil and make it a state fund to recoup the loss. How about that? Build a thing and counter this stupid idea that oil cares about a disaster on a global basis for 1% of their customer base.

They deserve it of course! It's a little too late to take back the power from the ones you blessed at your own expense. They trained your cops ICE CBP FBI CIA top military to turn on you! They have allowed all of this and they are the ones with guns and all sorts of toys to lock the rich ones up

So this bill lets the state of CA sue oil companies to recover their (CA’s) insurance claims (and premium increases?) costs? For fires? This sounds ridiculous but maybe I just don’t get it.

We *all* should. A huge class action lawsuit for every spillage, every river polluted, hell - every bird rescued. And I sincerely hope that when the tidal waters flood Mar-a-lardo, he (who shall not be named) has no insurance.

This is a great example of a free market failure. The true cost of fossil fuels is not reflected its price and is socialized onto the commons where well all pay.

Humans will destroy the earth but at least the oil barons made profits for hundreds of years and had great lives. Planet Earth was cool while it lasted but we must sacrifice everything to our rapist, grifting Gods and be thankful for the cars we were all so lucky to drive.

Major oil companies have known about the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change for over 70 years, with evidence of internal awareness dating back to at least 1954.

Whenever Trump opens his mouth over the Middle East, the prices of oil increases. But when Trump shut his mouth over the Middle East, put the price of oil drops. Maybe it’s time Trump is silenced permanently.