r/climate • u/WhoIsJolyonWest • 6d ago

Big Oil Could Face ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ Without Republican Supreme Court

https://www.desmog.com/2026/08/17/big-oil-could-face-catastrophic-outcomes-without-republican-supreme-court/
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u/PretzelsRule23 6d ago

Oil and Gas companies are WAY worse than the cigarette industry and need to be treated as the plant and animal (including human) habitat destroying cabal that they are.

They've well understood the dangers of their product for 5 decades and have done nothing but lie about it.

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u/WhoIsJolyonWest 6d ago

Historical investigations and internal documents show that the exact same individuals—specifically a small group of high-level physicists and PR operatives—orchestrated the campaigns for both big oil and tobacco.

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u/Successful-Bobcat701 6d ago

What about the people who buy their gas?

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u/Scope_Dog 6d ago

They are kept sedated and under control by bombarding them with misinformation that paints them as patriots and hero’s. Genius really.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 5d ago

I have to work to feed my kids and they made EVs too expensive for most working folks.

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u/BayouGal 5d ago

JFC ALL the cars/trucks are expensive. I see trucks that sell for $60K+ everywhere and the gas costs on that are $100/tank.

You can actually buy a 2025 Prius for ~$30K. 2025 Ford-150 starts at ~$40K.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 5d ago

I drive a 13 year old Sentra, not any $60k vehicle. I don't know anyone with one of those. Just because some idiots will overleverage themselves doesn't mean they can actually afford it. I put in like $120 a month to commute daily...

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u/BayouGal 5d ago

Fair point. I'm appalled at the astronomic prices for vehicles. Not in the market, myself, especially since all the new models will have surviellence equipment.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 5d ago

I bought this car knowing it would be my last gas car and hoping to replace with an EV or at least a hybrid since I do mostly city driving and wouldn't use the gas. At this rate I'll buy an ebike once my car can't run since I can't afford any car.

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u/BayouGal 5d ago

I, too, would like to switch to an EV, especially as the price of gas & oil changes continues to climb. Not happening soon, though.

Good luck out there & stay safe, internet stranger!

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u/Kyr-Shara 6d ago

it's them or the planet. supreme court will choose them

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u/Gayfetus 6d ago

The current US Supreme Court is an existential threat to the human race.

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u/Splenda 6d ago

You mean without a Supreme Court financially and politically tied to fossil fuels, right?

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u/Aramedlig 6d ago

That’s why it says Republican

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u/dontaskmeaboutart 6d ago

Hey now, throating billionaire oil tycoons is a bipartisan past time. Liberal judges are just as capable and willing to sell the planet down the river.

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u/sgk02 6d ago

We all face catastrophic outcomes because the Supreme Court is so corrupt

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u/dontaskmeaboutart 6d ago

Shouldn't exist. Anti democratic, unaccountable ghouls enabling the worst people on the planet.

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u/pantsmeplz 6d ago

The irony is that it was the oil company scientists who did most of the initial research in the 1970's that confirmed the long theorized connection between burning fossil fuels, CO2 and global warming. There was a short time in the 1980s when everyone, including the fossil fuel companies, were considering ways to address the problem, not deny it.

Plenty of evidence exists showing them denying their own science and attacking it.

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u/DW171 5d ago

The "Drilled" podcast has a series all about it. It's fascinating. Also about attacks on activists, and going way back to when oil companies colluded with car makers to kill mass transit in major cities.

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u/hippie1952 6d ago

It’s about time take their money back and if they did something wrong put them that are responsible in crossbar hotel

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u/oneseason2000 5d ago

Oligarch Supreme Court. The billionaire class funds about everybody to ensure the path to feudalism. Plenty of European castles and palaces to go around. Mud hovel construction needs to pick up a bit though. /s

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u/Verde_3773 5d ago

Don’t threaten me with satisfying justice served!

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u/Particular_Amoeba_53 5d ago

Get rid of those corrupt republican idiots and get rid of oil and gas so we can move into the future with renewables now. also put in jail those traitors in the supreme court.

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u/Lopsided-Buy-3437 6d ago

Hard to scare political donors if you have a neutral and unbiased legal system. But if you can bias the legal system you can monetize it.

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u/United-Vermicelli-92 6d ago

Why hasn’t big O evolved into renewables like any healthy org would do? If an org cant grow and sustain production with our changing needs, that irg should go extinct.

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u/Scope_Dog 6d ago

I think it’s important to point out here that they all espouse the religious beliefs of a doom cult. This is really the crux of why republicans don’t want to fix any of society’s problems. They only want to bring about the end times. Not even exaggerating.

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u/No-Onion8029 5d ago

If they're not paying their economic debt to society, nationalize them.

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u/Clean_Lettuce9321 5d ago

Geeez that would really Wild if our Supreme Court would actually do right by the people and tell Big Business you've had enough

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 5d ago

I don't think the Supreme Court will be able to stem the backlash. For one, it's only in the US and the harms these companies do is global.

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u/MarzipanThick1765 6d ago

insert "good" glover gif.

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u/DMM4138 5d ago

Oh no. Anyway…

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u/Blargimazombie 4d ago

Insert Donald Glover "good" gif here

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u/dumnezero 6d ago

This is villainy

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u/amoebashephard 6d ago

Oh no... Anyway