(06-16-2024, 08:15 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(06-16-2024, 07:55 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I don't think it would have much of an effect, since Exxon alone had more than 300 billion dollars in revenue and more than 30 billion dollars in net income last year.  They can afford this case a lot better than whoever is suing them.  

But I don't let my judgment of a few crazy liberals cloud my judgment of whether man-made climate change is real.  It's real.

Whether you, or anyone, believe climate change is real is not the issue here. If just one entity succeeds in holding the oil companies responsible for it, then that sets a legal precedence which will potentially have big impacts on the common consumer. 

Let’s see if your self-righteousness shines as brightly when your abilities to travel are severely restricted and rationed because governments use that ruling to set onerous limits on the masses. 

Want to fly to Europe for a vacation? Sorry, you depleted your annual air travel fossil fuel usage quota when you attended that funeral last February. Furthermore, our centralized database indicates you’re also approaching the limits of annual gasoline usage.