Wrongful death lawsuit says Big Oil contributed to heat wave and woman's death.

I personally doubt that a law suite against an oil company would be up-held; especially given the many Republicans on Supreme Court. If an oil company were to be fined, however, it would be like a carbon tax, which I basically favor. Raising the price of fossil fuels that gets passed on to the consumer.

The Republican Party, itself, could be target of blame for climate denial. Below I excerpted this from article.

The current administration has been quick to disregard climate change and related jargon. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, again; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — an agency whose weather forecasting and research workforce has been gutted — will no longer track the cost of weather disasters fueled by climate change; and the Environmental Protection Agency has been called on to a rewrite its long-standing findings that determined planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

Another one of my thoughts is how deadly cars can be that people drive everyday. Sitting in a car, even in shade, can be deadly on a hot day if the air-conditioning is not working. If driving, its better to try and find an air-conditioned business to stop at and walk into the cool space, I guess.

I wrote this blog post after I found an article in May 29, 2025 Huntingdon Daily News. About someone from Ferndale, near Bellingham.

Got a response like this where I posted somewhere else.

Carbon taxes put the burden on working people as the rich don’t notice it and big companies just pass it on. It’s a regressive tax.

We NEED to outlaw burning of Fossil Fuel with enough lead time before it goes into effect to change over to sustainable fuels.

My reply.

It does seem like many people rebel against laws. If we kick the can down the road and outlaw fossil fuels in 10 years, it would probably still be a hardship. We may need a 10 year plan, but folks would say it's like the 5 year plans under Stalin's Soviet Union.

Back in the 1970s, there was a law for gas rationing to try and allocate the short supply during the Arab oil embargo. The wealthy were not allowed to jump the cue like in more of a market driven system. When Reagan came along, deregulation and the market became more like a god, I guess. The market and higher prices brought more oil production from shale and so forth.

In some ways, I miss the days of odd / even gas rationing. Those were my college days. Back then, I remember somewhat smugly saying, I don't drive. I can still say that today.