HotCold Take: Maui Sued Oil In 2020 Over Fire Risks Or Something

The Warmists at the NY Times think they’re on to Something Big

Maui Sued Big Oil in 2020, Citing Fire Risks and More

The words were strikingly prescient: Because of climate change, lush and verdant Maui was facing wildfires of “increased frequency, intensity and destructive force.”

They appeared in a 2020 lawsuit filed by Maui County seeking damages from Exxon, Chevron, and other giant oil and gas companies, accusing them of a “coordinated, multifront effort to conceal and deny their own knowledge” that the burning of fossil fuels would heat the planet to dangerous extremes.

Now, after wildfires driven by conditions linked to climate change have devastated the Hawaiian island, the lawsuit carries renewed heft.

I’m pretty sure darned sure that fossil fuels and anthropogenic climate change had nothing to do with there being lots and lots of invasive grasses which were basically creating a tinder box. Nor were they responsible for the denial of water to attempt to control the blaze. Nor the failure to use sirens, etc and so on

Ryan Meyers, senior vice president and general counsel at the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry lobby group, called the Maui wildfires a tragedy but stressed that their immediate cause was still under investigation.

He called the litigation brought by Maui part of a “coordinated campaign to wage meritless lawsuits against our industry” and “nothing more than a distraction from important issues and an enormous waste of taxpayer resources.”

Maui is among more than two dozen states and municipalities, including Honolulu, which is about 100 miles from Maui, that are suing fossil fuel companies for climate damages.

Hawaii would be nothing without fossil fuels. Their economy is utterly dependent on tourism and the military, and almost no one would want to take a sailing ship to Hawaii, especially since Hawaii depends on fossil fueled shipments of foods and goods. They grow very little, except for personal consumption. The sugar industry is barely afloat. What does Hawaii produce? In small amounts, things like honey, pineapples, coffee, and macadamia nuts, but, how do they do that in 2023 without fossil fueled ships? How do tourists come without fossil fueled airplanes? Do tourists want to travel on foot or in cars? Do they want to take an expensive vacation when the power is intermittent? What powers all those highrise hotels? What powers the ships that bring in the fish for tourists to eat?

Without fossil fuels, Maui would be a stuck in the 16th Century. No one would visit. Why bother? Taking a 2,000+ mile trip on a sailboat? It’d be funny as hell if Exxon and the rest closed all their stores, stopped selling their products on the islands.

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