Better climate science has opened the door to lawsuits against Big Oil
I don&#x27;t get it. Exxon sells a product that is entirely legal, at the price consumers are willing to pay in a competitive market. And those  consumers are ultimately responsible for buying it, at least from a moral standpoint.<p>Also, if you want to play the game, how much wealth did the society collectively gain from burning oil in the past 100 years? Should we give the oil companies a medal for that? A Nobel peace prize because they makes all the ambulances run, saving lives every day?<p>It seems deeply questionable to me that you want to keep the benefits you derived from oil, while offloading the blame for the downsides only on the companies providing it to you. Have the citizens of San Mateo stopped using oil, or renounced the cumulative societal benefits derived from its use in the past century?