California. Stupid is as stupid does. Make India and South Korea rich again.
There was a time when California had 40 oil refineries. Did the oil run dry? No. The loons felt that it was better to import oil from the Bahamas, India, and South Korea. After this year there will be less than a dozen. All in the name of pollution. But yet they have 15 of the 25 most polluted cities. How about water?
California has hundreds of rivers. 20 ARE VERY LARGE. They only use five of those rivers for drinking, bathing, and gardening. Their largest water source is the Colorado River. And that river isn’t even in California. Sure it borders the state but doesn’t flow in it. And Energy?
California shut down its Nuclear Power Plants and coal industry. But almost 30% of their energy is imported from other states coal and Nuclear Power Plants. Don’t rely on wind and solar. They export that instead of using it to lower utility rates.
It is California that has become reliant on other states for such basic things as energy, gasoline, and water.
California has the resources, financial and natural, to be independent when it comes to those issues, but it does not have the will or the competence. That has left California as a dependent state, which helps explain why it is floundering.
