Here’s Where California Democrats Are Pointing the Finger of Blame for Wildfires
31st January 2025
You knew this was coming. California’s Democrat legislators presented a bill Monday to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the Los Angeles fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Senate Bill 222 aims to blame the fires on climate change caused by fossil fuels and make the oil companies bankroll the state’s underfunded insurance plan.
The move is a predictable response by the one-party state’s leaders seeking to deflect from their own gross mismanagement of the city and state, which is the real cause of the disaster. They destroyed the home insurance market by driving out insurance companies through onerous price controls. As a result, the state is on the hook for billions in damages covered by its “FAIR Plan” insurance, established as coverage of last resort for homeowners. The bill proposes that the oil companies serve as the backstop for the FAIR Plan.
Leaders bowing to environmentalists also created the conditions for huge wildfires by failing to properly manage the forests through basic brush clearance and controlled fires that are standard in other states.
Additionally, through shear gross negligence, firefighters ran out of water because city officials allowed the Pacific Palisades’ 117-million-gallon reservoir, built to fight fires, to sit empty for almost a year awaiting a minor, $130,000 repair.
And they cut the LA Fire Department budget, leaving the city with the same number of firefighters and fire stations it had in 1960. Quite incredible, since it is these same leaders who are constantly warning us that alleged “climate change” will cause a lot more fires.