BIG OIL made trillions of dollars while wrecking the climate.
They should pay a fair share to clean up the mess.
The Make Big Oil Pay! documentary follows the story of three Vermonters navigating the aftermath of the Great Flood of 2023 and the role that Big Oil could play in future climate disaster mitigation.
Climate change is hitting Vermont hard.
Tropical Storm Irene cost nearly $1 billion to clean up.
The costs of the flooding in 2023 will likely cost even more.
Looking ahead, state economists predict that climate change is going to cost billions more over the next 25 years.
Meanwhile, Big Oil is making record profits.
The world’s largest oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron knew about the dangers of climate change for decades.
They deceived the public and the press about it for years.
And they continue to make huge sums of money while sticking all of us with the climate bill.
What if we could make
BIG OIL REINVEST
some of those profits in Vermont?
Let’s create a CLIMATE SUPERFUND
to recoup BILLIONS from the biggest OIL COMPANIES to …
REBUILD OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
MAKE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AFFORDABLE.
PROTECT OUR
FARMS AND FORESTS.
A wide majority of Vermonters support this idea.
A recent poll asked Vermonters:
“Some state lawmakers in Vermont are considering a bill that would assess a one-time fee on big oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron to pay a share of the costs for making Vermont’s infrastructure better able to withstand the impacts of climate change.
Would you support or oppose this bill?
Source: Data For Progress, May 2023
The Make Big Oil Pay campaign in the news …
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporting a federal polluters pay climate fund:
“For decades, the fossil fuel industry knowingly destroyed our planet to pad their short-term profits. We must stand up to the greed of the fossil fuel industry - make fossil fuel corporations pay for the irreparable damage they have done to our communities and our planet.”