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2025-01-28 Home Front: Politix

California Dems want to sue Big Oil for horrific L.A. fires

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-28 09:43|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11154 views ] Top

#1 Seriously?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-28 10:10|| 2025-01-28 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 SQUIRREL!

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 10:45|| 2025-01-28 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Grifters gotta grift

Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-28 10:56|| 2025-01-28 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Just like Democrats to blame somebody else for the problems they create.

Let's suppose, just for argument's sake, that climate change is not some green commie fantasy. Even so, there are all kinds of things people like Newsom and Bass could have done to mitigate the impact. Things like hiring more firefighters and giving them the equipment they need to do their jobs, cutting fire brakes, clearing dead brush and planting green belts with ice plant, making sure the reservoirs are full so the fire hydrants don't run dry, actually checking the fire hydrants at regular intervals and making sure they don't get stolen (which has been happening), letting insurance companies set realistic premiums so they don't go broke paying claims for fires in fire prone areas. On and on it goes. It's not my job to know all the things that could be done. It's theirs and they didn't do it. So now they wanna blame the oil companies? Wait for it; the oil companies will leave California just like the insurance companies. Who will Newsom blame then?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-28 12:07|| 2025-01-28 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not the Almond Farms?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-28 12:12|| 2025-01-28 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Those with deep pockets are already leaving California. This will really speed up the process.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2025-01-28 15:56|| 2025-01-28 15:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't it time for oil companies to start fighting back against envirofreaks?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-28 16:15|| 2025-01-28 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 ...by moving out of California. Let the state enjoy the 'green' benefits of the 19th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-28 16:24|| 2025-01-28 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 ^you mean 19th BC?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-28 16:27|| 2025-01-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 ...Cause in 19th AD, they've been burning a lot of coal.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-28 16:29|| 2025-01-28 16:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Eaton fire appears to have started by an overhead powerline fault(s) of some sort.

There's a surveillance video of the initial sparks and subsequent burning on the ground. Southern California Edison system, I believe.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-28 16:40|| 2025-01-28 16:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Guess it's no wonder Chevron left California, where it'd been for probably a good 100 years.

How any business can stand remaining in California is beyond me (politically connected ones aside).

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-28 17:03|| 2025-01-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

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