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"Follow the money" is more apropos to climate catastrophism than Big Oil. You don't have to coerce people into using oil because it's so fundamental to modern living. That's not to say the industry is faultless, but there's way more conspicuous corruption with regards to coercion in the form of "going green".
Politicians don't "follow the science", they follow their constituents interests and are influenced by corporate money. Differently phrased, politicians are influenced by corporations and persuade their constituents to see things their way. People respond to incentive no matter which side of any particular topic they are on, and as such, are susceptible to corruption.
The cancer isn't Big Oils political influence, but corporatism itself. Singling out individual instances is a distraction from solving the fundamental problem at a higher level of analysis.
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