This is ridiculous. For decades, New Yorkers, like all Americans, have enjoyed the benefits of cheap energy. Exxon and other oil companies are giving consumers what they want.
Even if this case were about whether Exxon was supplying a demand, which is dubious (most of their consumers were industrial, and individuals had no other options), they still suppressed research about the environmental impact of the product.
You can't argue "free market" when the seller is part of an oligopoly and abused its enormous power to misinform the public and buy politicians.
Even though I shouldn't try to disprove anyhting that hasn't been proven in the first place. Think about this:
When anyone purchases anything there will always be a million things they would disapprove about the product (how it's produced, how its workers are treated, how environment friendly it is, how much advertisers lie about it, what the company does with profits, does the company use unfair competition practices, does the company avoid taxes and so on and so on) but purchase it anyway because there is no alternative. The critical error and monumental stupidity is to use this purchase as a signal of approval of everything the consumer actually disapproves of.
> After seeing the absolutely bonkers car culture that America has, then yes.
The planet is a lot more than just America.