Ah, California members joined again and passed a bill to promote the ridiculous boundaries of law. The bill will allow victims of natural disasters to sue oil companies to cause damage compensation. Yes, you read correctly-the victim of the wildfire can now bring Exxon Mobil to the court, as if the hurricane and forest fire suddenly started to appear at the moment when someone filled the SUV.
Cartoon villain's legal logic
The bill was proposed by two Democratic legislators, based on the concepts of oil and natural gas companies that have always existed Deceptive It hides the risk of climate change, and it is probably rotating their beards and smiling wildly. The argument is that the use of fossil fuel “exacerbates storms and wildfires”, which makes California ’s billions of dollars and even cause the state's insurance market to be turbulent.
There is only one problem: the whole premise has been tried and laughed in court. Law firms led by climate lawsuits Law firms have used this exact strategy for many years. It failed over and over again. The court rejected these cases and realized that each natural disaster was fixed on the large oil as strict with the morning coffee on the peak time.
Sher Edling: Litigation Factory
Sher Edling's mission has been resorting to the mission of oil company, which is the same as the vulnerable argument that the court has repeatedly rejected. Their entire script is based on two completely discredited document sets:
- Memorandum of “Re-Placing Global Warm” -The unit public relations sounds that the industry has never adopted.
- Memorandum of “victory” -s not used, but still evidence that is considered guilty in some way.
The proposal claims that the oil industry intentionally deceives the public about the risk of fossil fuel in climate change. These risks have now exacerbated storms and wildfires, and have caused billions of dollars in California. Supporters of the bill said that the disaster also drives the state insurance market to crisis. In this crisis, the company is raising interest rates to restrict the scope of underwriting or completely withdrawn from areas that are vulnerable to wildfires and other natural disasters.
https://www.msn.com/en-s/news/us/california-cons-quing-wildfire-Victims-su-Oil- Companies- Damages/Aa1xxqzf?
However, despite failure records, they are still looking for new methods to promote this nonsense. Now they do not argue in the federal court (they are repeatedly closed), but have shifted their strategy to state -level lawsuits, hoping that California's radical judges can bring them sympathetic ears.
For oil companies, at the same time ignore the real culprit
One of the most ridiculous aspects of the proposal is that it easily ignores other major contributors to the California wildfire crisis. For example:
- Arson: Most wildfires are caused by human activities including arson. However, of course, let us accuse the oil company.
- Forest management is not good: California refused to carry out controlled burns, and appropriate land management made its forests a literally fire box. But again, let us blame for this.
- Public institutional company: The bill is ironic that the bill acknowledges that when their equipment causes a fire, the public cause has been responsible, but the legislators must not only focus on better power grid management, but hope to expand the blame network to the oil company to the oil company Essence
The ultimate goal: legal extortion
This entire effort is only another attempt to shake cash. If the court does not force the oil company to pay, it may be political pressure and radical lawsuits to solve the problem. Sher Edling does not participate in the battle because they care about climate change, because climate lawsuits are big business.
But this is the real football: Even if these lawsuits are successful, who do you think will pay for it? Petroleum companies are not charity, they will pass these costs directly to consumers. This means youDue to litigation based on junk science and legal gymnastics, daily drivers will eventually pay more fees on the pump.
The author of the bill said that if it is approved, California will be the first state in the United States to allow such lawsuits.
Wiener said at a press conference on Monday: “We all pay for these disasters, but there is a non -payment interest -related person: the fossil fuel industry, which makes the product promotes climate change.”
https://www.msn.com/en-s/news/us/california-cons-quing-wildfire-Victims-su-Oil- Companies- Damages/Aa1xxqzf?
Conclusion: The endless blame game
California legislators once again proved that they would prefer to chase Brahman instead of solving natural disasters. They did not focus on forest management, improved infrastructure, and even did not focus on the policy of driving their insurance companies out of the state. Instead, they chose another round of performance theater.
But hey, when you can sue EXXON, why do you deal with reality?
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