{"id":2450261,"date":"2019-10-23T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/fossil-fueling-the-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:39:45","slug":"fossil-fueling-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/fossil-fueling-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil-fueling the fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In response to Patrick Hunter\u2019s letter <a id=\"N0x119ad70N0x1116810:N0x119ad70N0x118d3e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/nothing-political-about-climate-changes-impacts\/\">\u201cNothing political about climate changes\u2019 impacts\u201d <\/a>(Oct. 18, aspentimes.com), you can expect more lawsuits to be filed by cities and states against fossil fuel companies. These companies knew in the \u201870s that their products were bad for Mother Earth and bad for leaving our kids a sustainable economy; and they lied about it, and they are still just green-washing the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There are six California cities suing them for liability. Go to ClimateLiability.org for the latest news. They need the money to help pay for rising sea levels. San Francisco airport just decided to build a $587 million sea wall around their airport so their runways don\u2019t get flooded. It\u2019s crazy, CO2 emissions keep on rising and the Keeling Curve (Wikipedia it) is going to reach a new high in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is time to tax carbon for its economic externality costs and for the feds to quit giving the fossil fuel companies production tax credits. And if you care about your kids\u2019 futures, commit to never again buy another internal combustion engine vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Tom Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/fossil-fueling-the-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Patrick Hunter\u2019s letter \u201cNothing political about climate changes\u2019 impacts\u201d (Oct. 18, aspentimes.com), you can expect more lawsuits to be filed by cities and states against fossil fuel companies. These companies knew in the \u201870s that their products were bad for Mother Earth and bad for leaving our kids a sustainable economy; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 12:04:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450294,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450261\/revisions\/2450294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}