Well there are a lot of people in California who are ultra-concerned over global warming/climate change and automobile’s contribution to that ... so why are they on the road to begin with? They should not be driving a fossil fuel vehicle to begin with.
Yeah, they all need to move to the cities and live in Japanese style 600 sq. ft. cubicle houses. Practice what they preach (unless they’re holier-than-thou academics).
Because they are hypocrites. How else will they get to their Mother Earth meetings. They buy clothing that oil produced or are a result of refining (plastic’s etc) then march in those clothes against big oil. Whatever they use is provided by oil powered machinery and oil byproducts. There was a big protest about a drilling rig being berthed in Seattle harbor on its way up north. Guess what? These ultra-liberal earth huggers came out paddling their fiberglass kayaks made out of and produced by - you guessed it, oil. Ever see the result of these people during an Earth Day run? The garbage they leave on the streets? Then too, the tons of garbage and trash they leave behind on some field during a protest.