Clarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

I assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. “w e know where your kids go to school.”

I’ll guess that you have never been to California. There was pumpjack one block away from my house when I was growing up.

But in fact, the biggest thing keeping us from moving away from fossil fuels is the political pressure from people who make money from it. And if California went into Canada or Cascadia, those people would come with it, kicking and screaming all the way.

I’ll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.

Ronald Reagan did that first for this particular line of work.