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Big Oil Pushed to Kill Bill That Would Have Made Them Pay for Wildfire Disasters

16th January 2025

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters.

Fossil-fuel industry lobbying in California spiked to record levels during the 2023-24 legislative session, and the polluter pay bill was among the most targeted pieces of legislation, a Guardian review of state lobby filings found.

The measure would have required the state’s largest carbon polluters to pay into a fund that would be used to prevent disasters or help cover cleanup efforts. The effort to thwart it leaves taxpayers for now shouldering much of the cost of catastrophes in part fueled by big oil’s pollution.

“The latest fire shows exactly how Californians are paying for climate destruction, not just with budget dollars, but with their lives, and it shows exactly why we need … to put the cost back on polluters” said Kassie Siegel, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, which has lobbied in support of the bill.

So there’s no real attempt to show that ‘Big Oil’ (does it have a membership card) was responsible for the wildfires, except the bogus Narrative about ‘climate change’ and the proglodyte dogma that anyone who (a) has lots of money and (b) is in a line of business which (though legal) proglodytes don’t like, is ripe for government-enforced plucking.

I have a thought: Democrat-supported proposals have to be paid for by those who vote for Democrats, and Republican-supported proposals have to be paid for by those who vote for Republicans. Put your money where your mouth is.

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