Last week, I took Vermont Democrats to the rhetorical woodshed over a new law to charge fossil fuel companies for the cost of climate change. It was a fun ride, but it was long-winded, so I published it on Substack.
It makes several excellent points about how stupid this greedy exercise is, but one in passing deserves more attention (emphasis added).
Millions of years ago, much of what is the modern US was underwater, absent our modern Western lifestyles. There was a lot of flooding, which makes the nonsense from the Accelerated sea level folks look silly.
We also had extreme temperatures and severe planet-changing weather events, all without fossil fuel companies to bilk or anyone voluntarily emitting the byproduct of their combustion (including the not yet existing government of the state of Vermont).
No one made anyone choose fossil fuels for anything, as George Sharpe observed on Sunday in the Albuquerque Journal in reference to Vermont’s law and it joining other states to sue oil companies (in search of a budget bailout climate payday – IMO).
“…none of the plaintiffs acknowledge the benefits of fossil fuels — the underappreciated workhorse that brought us out of the dark ages. Carbon energy, which underpins our entire life as we know it, hasn’t ruined the environment but has helped preserve it.
The nastiest living conditions with the lowest life expectancy on the planet are where people have little, if any, access to energy.
Second, since Vermont and most of the other plaintiffs produce no oil or gas, exactly which companies are to blame for their emissions?
Vermont’s emissions did not occur because Exxon produces oil and gas in Texas or elsewhere, those emissions came because their citizens continue to consume the fuels that are crucial to running their lives.
Given the global nature of the accusation, the greedy will state unequivocally that it is the accumulation of emissions everywhere, but again, no one made anyone choose to embrace cheap energy to pull themselves or their societies out of the dark ages.
Claims that they (big oil, gas, coal) knew about the damage and hid it are ridiculous, if not just because the only thing being hidden is that CO2 is not doing any of the things the greedy climatists claim. There is more than enough leaked insider correspondence to create enough doubt to make any claim in court to the contrary fail.
It remains to be seen whether social and political pushback will produce enough years of more reasonable leadership to reverse the damage (and properly investigate the fraud), but every storm is announced with a breeze, so we can hope.
As for Vermont, its citizens will need to come together and agree that whatever the deal may be, their current crop of “leaders” does not have their best interests at heart and are trying to paper over their incompetence by bilking some climate devil to hide this with “easy money” that is only going to cost them more in the end.
And it will all be for nothing.
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