If oil was the only cause of climate change perhaps there would be an argument. But what next? Suing Iceland over volcanic eruptions? Suing lumber companies for cutting down trees? It has become absurd. Climate change is big business. Case in point: financially strapped Oakland wants to get paid. How to do that? It’s just like Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition’s shakedown of corporations: “donate” or we’ll call you racist and picket your business.

When the solution to climate change is “pay me” then I am skeptical. Perhaps the San Fran area ought to immediately ban all gasoline and diesel sales and close all highways to non electric vehicles. And close the shipping port. And the airport.

No, they won’t do that because this isn’t about some immediate threat, this is about getting paid. As long as there is a single gasoline station in the Bay Area, Oakland and friends are doing nothing more that leveraging FUD to get paid.