Dying trees are lightning magnets because they have reached their full life span and are the tallest trees in the area. Your logic is sadly missing. Are you suggesting that because oil develops from dead vegetation that there is some relationship?
Nope, they are not always the tallest tree because they have lost their tops from the hurricanes, which is why they are dying to begin with.
Even brush that has been sprayed an is dying will attract lightening even when there is a 100’ tree close by.
“Are you suggesting that because oil develops from dead vegetation that there is some relationship?”
How in the world did you dream that up from what I said?
The oil leak kills the plants.