Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator
A spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger said the former governor and famous movie actor is still pursuing his options to sue oil companies for “first degree murder.”
“We’ve had consistent meetings with a team of legal experts who focus on environmental law and ways to sue for pollution, so we have continued those meetings and we’ve definitely made progress,” Daniel Ketchell, a Schwarzenegger spokesman, told Axios on Wednesday.
The statement comes about a year after the moderate Republican governor of California said he hoped to sue fossil fuel companies for contributing to climate change and “killing people” all over the globe.
“I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies,” Schwarzenegger said in March 2018. The famous bodybuilder, who has publicly called on President Donald Trump to do more to promote clean energy, expressed interest in treating fossil fuels like tobacco, forcing them to include a warning label. “The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it,” he said.
Although a lifelong Republican, Schwarzenegger has become an ardent environmental activist and fossil fuel critic since leaving his gubernatorial post. The former bodybuilder founded the R20 Regions of Climate Action, an environmental organization that aims to increase the use of renewable energy sources and reduce the world’s carbon emissions.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 18: Arnold Schwarzenegger starts the Run for the Kids charity run as part of the Arnold Sports Festival Australia at at the Alexander Gardens on March 18, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
Schwarzenegger’s activism has led to clashes with the White House, which has organized a wide-scale deregulation effort and made attempts to revive the country’s coal industry. The famous movie actor publicly rebuked Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the international Paris climate agreement. (RELATED: Plans To Save Largest US Coal Plant In The West Hit A Roadblock)
In his most recent climate change project, Schwarzenegger announced he is teaming up with California Democrat Kevin de León in an effort to reduce emissions from cars and trucks. The two prominent politicians are launching an initiative alongside activists and researchers that will study how local governments can more quickly adopt cleaner transportation options.
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Notice the photo caption shows Arnie speaking in Australia.
So he believes producing fossil fuels is murder, but using fossil fuels to fly around the world for completely unnecessary events is okay.
The degree of stupidity required for this contradiction is off the charts.
How is it that a little power turns so many individuals into total whack-jobs?
Once Arnie has completely de-fossilized, I’ll start believing that he is sincere.
Until then I will continue doing as he does WRT fossil energy usage.
I dunno, he’s looking pretty close to fully-fossilized to me.
That will be impossible, given that Arnie is one of the biggest fossils around.
Shame he did not increase the capability between his ears rather than that below his neck.
Roid rage kicking in
Because it causes them to believe that they are the ‘enlightened’ ones.
If he knowingly uses fossil fuels that murders people, he also should be charged with murder.
Talking about murder, what if we powered our hospitals with wind turbines and solar panels. We could remove all plastics and synthetics derived from petrolium from the ICU. Is that what
Arnie wants? Maybe he just wants a little of everybody else’s money by sueing a publicly-owned company and increasing the cost of energy and everything derived from petroleum. We the consumers will be the ones to pay.
too many steroids
What’s AOC’s excuse?
Hard to blame this on roids when there are so many other idiots walking around with the same libt@rd disease.
Arnold had a faulty heart valve. He’s had surgeries to correct it.
AOC needs to have a surgery to repair a valve.
The valve that keeps the air from going from her head to her mouth.
Worse, the eco terrorists policy would kill millions.
When did the epiphany occur Arnie and are you out on bail?
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=arnold+schwarzenegger+cars&qpvt=arnold+schwarzenegger+cars&FORM=IGRE
He started on a right note as a governor of California. Then something changed – he did not even defend his own proposed initiatives when they came under fire. Very Un-Terminator like. There must be something in Sacramento effecting brains, a green mold maybe?
Maybe he’s running low on money.
You are right – he started on a right note. But when his three (IIRC) initiatives went down in flames, it looked like he decided to get even and screw everybody. Ever since that loss, his activities appear downright anti-human. That would account for why he’s “joined” the Green movement. And like most Greenies, he wants to impose those controls on everyone else, wile driving his Hummer and flying all over the world.
The dirtbag wanted to be president. Used the ballot initiatives to help win election, but had no interested in seeing them succeed. I had a call from one of his PACs trying to convince me to give him money to change the laws so he could run for president. Told them where they could insert their request.
Why did he not change his place of birth instead? That’s a true and tried method.
What? Who? Oh,Bummer!
He married a libt@rd. Libt@rdism must be contagious.
Senile dementia is such a nasty disease on the mind.
Senile, roid-rage … aka shriveled boys rage … not pretty. It makes you do things like schtupp the ugly, illegal immigrant downstairs maid … and get her pregnant. Yecch. What a colossal human trainwreck. Wake me up when he stops using all products derived from Oil.
He need not have senile dementia to be totally out of touch with reality. It is sufficient that he is an ex body builder, Hollywood pseudo-actor and celebrity. Celebrity status in particular seem to be a highly reliable marker of idiocy. Common sense would say that, according to Arnie’s logic, it would be a case of mass murder to shut off the supply of fossil fuels, and there wouldn’t be punishments enough to account for the tragedy given that hundreds of millions would die as a consequence as the instruments of modern society all collapse. Venezuela is giving us a front row seat to this type of apocalypse but all Arnie can see is the shine of his aviator glasses in the rear view mirror of his Hummer as he waves at the peons while he drives by.
Um, Austrian politician with delusions of greatness and threatening rhetoric?
Not the only historical instance of such a person.
Was never the sharpest tool in the shed… a lot of people become stupid when they get old too.
The problem here is the lack of science.
“A lot of people become stupid when they get old”
Not all – some of us just become more cynical…
Proportional to the amount of bullshit we have experienced no doubt.
You can’t be too thin, too rich, or too cynical. Scratch the too thin. You can be afflicted with some horrible wasting disease and starve to death. But, you can’t be too rich or too cynical.
The problem is lack of mentality. You need to know no science to understand that the use of fossil fuels has prevented more death and suffering than caused, even if you believe the worst about them. If they are so bad, why does he continue to use them? If renewable energy is so doable, why isn’t he constructing his own facilities, or starting his own company. He has plenty of resources.
The attitude that something is bad, even if based on ignorance, is tolerable if those believing it simply stopped using the product. Insisting that others provide you a substitute product that you deem acceptable, is not.
Fossil fuel suppliers and users are under no obligation – legally, morally, or ethically – to create products for anyone for any reason. Either create your own solution, do without the product, or shut up.
Stupid is common to all age groups, it has been said there are 2 things universal on earth, hydrogen and stupidity.
Einstein has been quoted as saying “There are two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the first.”
He forgets conveniently that fossil fuels brought us prosperity, good health, economic growth from the dark ages…. and a lot more advantages I care to write down.
I am not sure what these greens are smoking, but it can not be common sense.
We have a legal decision to that effect:
Consider the plight of the water company. It is certain that someone will drink so much water that they will die. water intoxication Does that mean the water company should be charged with murder?
Do remember that Arnold must sit down at an Easter dinner table ringed with Kennedy family descendants — as an adulterer. And the poor guy can’t afford to cite a longstanding exculpatory Joseph, John, and Ted Kennedy tradition to avoid doing anything they say just to hold his sorry head up.
By the way, that top photo leading to the article is a great ‘hair on fire’ image resource.
The old saying *all brawn and no brain*. He is as mad as that other Austrian back in the thirties.
“he decided to run for Governor in California and actually won. There, he used this slick Gulfstream III to go from his L.A. house to his office in Sacramento.”
http://teddyfeed.com/trending/luxury-yachts-and-private-jets-fb/
Mustn’t be too hard on him as he might have flight shared to the office with the other virtue signalling toffs.
Kewl!
Gulfstream III, one slick airplane
Normal Range: 3460 nm
Max Range: 3750 nm
Service Ceiling: 45000 ft
Fuel Capacity: 28090 lbs
This plane has some serious long range for a smallish twin jet.
Must Be Nice.
Nice Hummer, too.
This guy is going on about what?
Caused by what?
Too bad some judge doesn’t rule no standing for those who don’t practice what they preach.
Wonder how he feels WRT AOC’s GND blather and how his Maid would afford to pay her fair share $65,000 annual on what he paid her??
Yeah, wake me up when the process server has arrived.
Note also, this is what the media push as a “Moderate Republican”.
When you redefine the middle as where you are standing today, and the far right as where you were standing yesterday.
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Hypocrite. Idiot. The technology to go carbon free exists, at a price. Does he use it? If anyone can afford to be carbon free he can. And i bet he doesn’t fly coach class to get to Oz and if he does I bet he won’t fly home in coach class. It’s not as if anyone has covered up AGW and kept it quiet. He’s the problem, not the oil companies. He’s the one who burns the stuff. Complete pretender. And he can’t act.
He also drives a Hummer. He really thinks about the environment.{sarc}
To be fair, he now has a prototype electric Hummer
https://www.motor1.com/news/181048/schwarzenegger-shows-electric-hummer-h1/
That, of course, doesn’t negate the fact that for years he chose to drive a massively CO2 spewing machine when there were other automobiles with much smaller CO2 footprints that he could have been driving instead.
There are “prototype” electric Range Rovers and Minis (The concept of both I like not for the electric power but for the nostalgia of the vehicle. And I think it will be the only way to “save” the vehicle for daily use IMO).
An Electric Cooper could be lighter than a ICE Cooper which would make it easier to scrape up with a Cooper Scooper after the accident
Sell all the gas guzzlers for scrap recycling so murderers can’t get their hands on the weapons and invest in a Hyundai Ioniq you reckon? No parole until he demonstrates remorse.
Why fall into this silliness of pretending anyone has to become ‘carbon-free’.
Delusional people imagine that it’s necessary, or even possible.
I don’t intend to join in their delusion just because they’re talking about it.
No one is expecting you to join in their delusion, What is being asked for is that those with that delusion live according to the delusion instead of being hypocrites about it. Arnie is belatedly made some virtue signaling steps in the direction of living it (having an Austrian company build him a prototype electric hummer) which is fine for a rich guy like him who can afford a custom built virtue signaling machine, but he still jets off to all corners of the world in private planes that burn fossil fuels, so one virtue signal doesn’t undo all the rest of his hypocrisy.
….and where does the electricity come from that “fuels” his EV?!?
the electric grid in California – so a mixture of various sources including renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuels.
Yes John, but the manufacture of so-called renewable sources produces way more toxic waste per watt-hour of capacity than the fossil or nuke plants when they are properly operated.
Arnold should be suing the Chinese, instead of biting the hand that got him to where he is today.
Given the abundance of hot air he could try balloon flights. 😉
Why doesn’t he go back to something more productive, like playing with his housekeeper.
I think the word is ‘procreative’ rather than ‘productive’.
He may also be suffering form post-workout roid rage withdrawal.
No, he’s just an old actor, out of work, no-one will hire him to make a film anymore and looking for some “free” publicity to pay for his lawyers fees.
He is another actor who’s films will be looked over in future.
Sure he’s a nut, but who in Hollywood isn’t? I still like some of his films. And I prefer to remember him as he was before he became governor and lost what was left of his mind.
He should be dubbed “The AntiReagan”, no?
What a load of %&^*% this biological chemical reject is, in real life he is just above pigmy ( in hight ) the years of steroids has done its work, I read an article on him and in all his life he has never been able to produce a genuine laugh now we know why
Oh GAWD! He’s in Melbourne, Australia, the home of the latte, city dwelling, climate “activist”.
It is an election year after all.
No, that was last year!
Perhaps ALL Air Travel could be banned quickly and He’d be stuck there
And how did he get to Melbourne? Was it, by chance, on a fossil fueled, CO2 spewing private jet?
I am sure he would have bought “carbon offsets” from his mate Al Gore when he turned off the lights in one of his mansions.
Will he wonders of Earth Hour ever cease?
We really are living in a mad age. If this did come to court, which I very much doubt, any half decent “defence” team would destroy his claims. But I suppose the publicity will have been generated, gullible people likely fleeced to fund the legal action and the defeat blamed on the limitless resources of big oil..
“…R20 Regions of Climate Action, an environmental organization that aims to …” kill people by making power unafordable, when it even works. Think South Australia, Venezuela & North Korea all rolled into one. Especially the murderous socialist thinking of you know who.
Fixed it for you.
Simple solution: countersue Arnie for promoting destruction of valuable predators like birds and bats with wind turbines and solar farms. He’s become an idiot, desperate for attention.
“Sarah Connor?” 😉
No, not me.
OMG he’s baaack.
Arnold was groomed by Lord Jake Rothschild at his Waddeston manor with Warren Buffett in 2002 to run for Governator. The Scotsman of the time had a photo of him walking from a ‘copter there with weird silver shoes. Thoroughly vetted by the Royal establishment. Reported by Kaletsky of the Times.
Many years of steroid abuse have turned his Mr. Universe legendary pectorals into flabby feminine breasts.
At that very same 2002 meeting Kaletsky reported on discussion of the oncoming property bubble collapse now known as Lehmann.
I’m still waiting for Arnold to “be Bach” and display some musical talent.
Perhaps he actually said “I’ll be Jock”?
“The statement comes about a year after the moderate Republican governor of California said he hoped to sue fossil fuel companies for contributing to climate change and “killing people” all over the globe.”
It’ll be some job digging out all those death certificates.
Many sects rise environmentalism to an absolute cult. Bio farming, clean living, total obedience, all green precepts are imposed on the low-grade, ordinary member while gurus parade on luxurious rides, live in palaces and run around the world in the most obscene style, get involved in big money schemes.
Those sects are notoriously prompt to mass suicide on behalf of potential environmental cataclysms, poisoned food, unbreathable air and so on.
Happens that the greens exhibit all signs and symptoms of a sect, precisely obsessed by environmental spiritualism and pseudo science, preaching cataclysms and catastrophes.
One more child jumping on the bandwagon to sue over climate change.
My word, what is it with these people. Can he name one person murdered by climate change? Murder is a premeditated action for killing another person. What a moron.
“We’ve had consistent meetings with a team of legal experts who focus on environmental law and ways to sue for pollution, so we have continued those meetings and we’ve definitely made progress,”
Meanwhile, back in the real world, breaking news:
TEAM OF LEGAL EXPERTS COLLECTIVELY RUBBING THEIR HANDS WITH GLEE AS ANOTHER MEGA WEALTHY FOOL PREPARES TO HAND THEM WADS OF ‘$ BILLS.’
Narrative and PR move. Anything for media coverage – especially the old hulks of Hollywood.
And, imho, he’d need to include himself as a defendant given his energy footprint as well as running on of the largest killers on the planet (the State of California).
Would be an interesting suit to see if one could really be both a primary plaintiff as well as a primary defendant (instead of a defendant joined in either the answer or other pleading).
Whatever is in the mind of Arnie, one of his most memorable works was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OnJj0RCm7g
Along with ‘I let him go’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB6pvQt0I8s
Maybe more entertainment awaits us all.
Murder? Where are the corpses?
So Arnie, how is the new crop of democrat-socialists any different? Can we assume you’ll be suing them soon too?