Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is attempting to introduce legislation in the US to shield fossil fuel companies from ALL product liability damages. Why, the fossil fuel industry is afraid of the rising number of successful lawsuits against it.
Senator Ted Cruz morally, ethically, and legally does not want fossil fuel companies to be responsible for any of the tremendous individual and environmental damage fossil fuel burning causes in the US and by extension around the world. He certainly doesn’t want the fossil fuel companies to be responsible for your child’s asthma, or the many thousands upon thousands of respiratory deaths each year caused by the toxic pollution from burning fossil fuels.
He also certainly doesn’t want individual homeowners, businesses, or states to be able to collect Legitimate restitution when their homes, businesses, or regions are devastated by the accelerating consequences of climate change caused directly by the burning of fossil fuels.
It appears that Senator Ted Cruz also wants to be the leader of this no product liability for fossil fuel companies and attract vast amounts of fossil fuel lobbying, donations, and support.
To help launch his campaign for new laws that shield fossil fuel companies from product liability, he has come up with a fantastic new story for why his fellow US politicians should join him in this massive climate change denial boondoggle.
Cruz claims that China, through a New York organization called the Energy Foundation China, is funding US nonprofits and other parties to bring new meritless lawsuits against fossil fuel companies. He names various US nonprofits, such as the Rocky Mountain Institute, that have received funding from the Energy Foundation China.
When several of these organizations were contacted, they stated that while they had received funding from this foundation, it was used to help reduce pollution in China and had no connection with encouraging lawsuits against fossil fuel companies worldwide.
It appears that Senator Ted Cruz was looking for an easy and big bad foil to blame for the rising and legitimate number of successful lawsuits against the fossil fuel companies worldwide. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would wanna sue a fossil fuel company for the toxic pollution and other individual and environmental harms that burning fossil fuel products causes.
Additionally, by making a big “I am so angry and indignant” media fuss, stating that China is destroying America’s energy security by promoting lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, Cruz is obviously also trying to provide political cover for other fossil fuel-financed politicians to help pass this new product liability shielding law for all fossil fuel companies.
If Cruz and the fossil fuel lobby are successful, it will be a financial nightmare for American homeowners, business owners, and many states if anything like this product liability shielding law passes, shielding the guilty fossil fuel companies and their globally destructive products.
We invite Ted Cruz and his staff to actually spend some time reading climate change science and stop being blinded by political support money being thrown at them by fossil fuel lobbyists. We invite Cruz and his staff to think beyond cash today and consider the climate change future of their own children and grandchildren if they keep pushing this insane removal of product liability for fossil fuel companies.
It is not China Ted that is the bad boy, causing the ever-increasing number of lawsuits to be filed and won against fossil fuel companies worldwide. You’re the bad guy, screwing over the small homeowners, small businesses, and even local politicians who are having to find some way to pay for the many forms of legitimate climate change-related damage caused by the ever-increasing burning of fossil fuels.
The simple “Oham’s Razor” reason that average citizens and local governments worldwide are filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies is that the toxic, polluting products of those companies have legitimately harmed them.
Additionally, making things worse, many of these parties filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies have already been rejected by insurance companies for their climate change-related damages. Insurance companies worldwide have become increasingly cautious, and most are no longer covering medium to high-risk climate change-related damages. The insurance climate-related denial process is straightforward. They either raise the rate so high that you can’t afford to pay them, or they cancel your policy outright.
Ted, you now need to clearly explain to the public exactly why you have sponsored your silly “no product liability for fossil fuel companies” new law. You need to explain why you’re going to harm average citizens like your own Texas constituents to protect guilty, gigantic fossil fuel corporations.
How could you not also realize that you’re protecting a harmful, dead-end industry? Do you also not understand that continuing to protect the dead-end fossil fuel industry is literally handing over dominance for the global manufacturing of green energy generation equipment to China?
Whoever dominates the manufacture and distribution of green energy generation equipment and also operates large-scale green energy generation facilities will in the future become the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. This is because “whoever controls both the future of green energy generation equipment manufacturing and leads in producing and selling green energy, will control the world financially, and probably in many other ways.
It doesn’t take much imagination to see China continuing to lead the world in producing the most cost-effective, efficient, and affordable solar panels, batteries, and wind generators. However, here’s the kicker: China will not only manufacture this equipment more effectively and at a lower cost than anyone else, it will also establish its own energy generation facilities in many other countries worldwide. Once those China-owned facilities have been established, it will be China, not US fossil fuel companies, that will provide those countries nearly unlimited, non-polluting green electricity at a significantly lower rate than they can produce in their own countries.
And finally, we certainly do not believe that Ted Cruz and his staff are dishonest or idiots. Rather, we believe their actions are best described and understood by the words of the American humorist Mark Twain.
“It’s hard to teach a man something that their salary depends upon, not knowing.”
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