You are so right! Like our sending our plastic to China to be recycled instead of just putting it in landfills. China promptly dumps it in the ocean.
If you get a map of the power grid surrounding California, like the trash issue, California relies on outside entities to provide for them so that they can claim to be green.
A lot of power flows into California from surrounding states so that they don’t have to build any of those nasty, ugly, smoking, CO2 producing power plants and be self sufficient.