Over at the American Thinker today, Eric Utter has a post entitled Biden administration seeks to punish oil companies. The administration is putting its thumbs on the scale seeking to have the Supreme Court sanction a novel theory that oil companies should pay for damages caused by so called "globlal warming."
The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that the Biden administration’s stunningly unjust Department of Justice “quietly weighed in on litigation pending before the Supreme Court this week, siding with liberal cities and states that are seeking to force the nation's largest oil companies to pay billions of dollars in damages for global warming.”
Biden’s Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, is pushing the Supreme Court to give its imprimatur to the notion that states can make laws mandating that oil companies pay “the costs of global climate change.” Prelogar is also urging SCOTUS to “allow Democratic states to pursue their individual lawsuits against the various companies.”
The Beacon also noted that the lawsuits against the big oil companies “are being assisted by the California law firm Sher Edling, which was founded in 2016 to wage war on oil companies via novel legal methods,” and has “received nearly $14 million in donations wired through the so-called Collective Action Fund for Accountability, a shadowy pass-through group that isn't required to publicly disclose its donors.”
I have pointed out over time that the entire theory of man-made climate change has been thoroughly debunked. Yet it continues because the people behind it see it as a way to take money from you and me and put it in their own pockets. Why work for it, when you can steal it instead? If this were not done under color of law, it would be a crime of the greatest proportions. But what I want to point out here is what Utter also points out: that in fact oil, coal, and natural gas have actually greatly benefited the human race. You would not be reading this, execpt for fossil fuels generating the electricity to send these pixels all over the world.
Let me explain. Any possible “damage” these companies have done to the earth is more than counteracted by the literally incalculable good they have done. Global warming? Petroleum, coal, and natural gas-based energy has prevented countless millions from dying of extreme cold over the past century or more via various, relatively inexpensive, heating systems. Global cooling? Petroleum, coal, and natural gas-based energy has prevented countless millions from dying of excessive heat via the relatively recent miracle of air-conditioning.
What else? Let’s see. How many lives have been immeasurably improved because of the internal combustion engine? The freedom to get in one’s car and drive to work, or to travel across the country to see the sights, historical, environmental, or otherwise, is a blessing—though too often taken for granted now—beyond compare. The same goes for air travel. Not to mention that, prior to gasoline-powered vehicles, things were a tad more difficult. Who wants to ride a horse to work in heavy snow and 40-below windchills? Walk? Bicycle? What about the elderly, infirm, and handicapped? Would that be fair, inclusive, tolerant, and kind? And the ubiquitous horse poop—filling the streets and thoroughfares of that era was an ever-present health threat on several levels.
More? Before petroleum-based oils came into existence, many people lit their homes with lamps fueled by whale oil. Sperm—and other—whales were also benefactors of the switch to oil, coal, and natural gas.
Exactly so. Before the age of fossile fuels, the average person lived and died in a 10 mile radius of where he or she was born. Most people could not afford to keep a horse, and horses are not that fast anyway. Most people worked very hard to just survive, and most people lived to an average of 40 years. Think about that. This is what the Biden administration wants for us. Still think they have our best interests at heart?
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