[Pearls Before Swine]

And CA will have to buy all of its electricity across its new national borders.

[BipolarBob]

Maybe some water as well.

[Cowboy Bob]

And water too.

[BipolarBob]

And they get Alaskan pipeline gas. Hmmm, the price on that could go up for them as well. Winning.

[nikos1121]

Let the bottom half secede. Keep the Northern half.

[pfflier]

And buy its Colorado river water.

[central_va]

And CA will have to buy all of its electricity across its new national borders.

You mean like in Europe?

[buwaya]

Not all, or even most.
A minority of electricity comes from out of state.
California has considerable electric generation in-state.

But certainly almost all its natural gas comes from out of state, CA depends a lot on natural gas fired power plants.

[Secret Agent Man]

I would like to see how Los Angeles powers up without buying power from the USA.

I think in about three weeks Calexit would lose the lower quarter of its “state” to mexicans.

[elteemike]

As well as all the new payments to Colorado, Utah and Arizona for the water they need, and now get from the Colorado River...

[randita]

Its water, as well.