My suggestion:
Avoid the nutty envirokooks by building a refinery or two in Baja, Mexico. You have port access, little chance of damage from hurricanes, a place to give Mexicans jobs rather than streaming into the U.S. and less cost inherent with doing all of this south of the border rather than in the U.S. where it would be more expensive.
Your only danger is if the Mexicans raise up an unfriendly government that would nationalize the refineries. Other than that, you could make good cheap gas easily accessible to the West Coast outside the influence of OSHA, the EPA, unions, the Sierra Club and the other NIMBY envirokooks.
that's is what is happening with LNG plant to be built down there someday supposedly, having to go south to build them.. we(CA) already get a lot of energy from mexico as is..