It always costs you, not them.

Vincent J. Curtis

4 Sept 23

RE: Charge Big Oil for damage.  By Don McLean. The Hamilton Spectator 2 Sept 23.

It’s a waste of time to reason with a fanatic.  Hence, we should confine our comments to observations about Don McLean’s demand that “Big Oil” be made to pay for the damages caused by the wildfires of this past summer.  Let’s say they are forced to pay; where are they going to recover the money?

Big Oil is going to find the money by raising fuel prices; so those who actually pay are those who drive cars and trucks. Now, McLean is not actually crazy in this.  Though he blames “Big Oil” for the CO2 emissions which alleged caused the fires, it’s actually those who burn the fuels that put CO2 into the atmosphere, and that would be drivers and those who heat their homes with natural gas and use electricity generated by natural gas.  Forcing Big Oil to pay for damages is McLean’s way of jacking up the carbon tax.

One way or another, by hook or by crook, the climate fanatics are going to force people into the strait-jacket of their design: an allegedly carbon-free world.  As little Canada penalizes itself, in China, India, and Russia the beat goes on.

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