[Grams A]

If I were king, I would prohibit all oil imports to California until they emptied the oil reserves off their own coasts.”

And I would strongly support you. I also think other states should quit selling them electricity. They can use their wind farms and solar to meet their needs. I would, however, allow an exemption to all California Freepers.

[Pecos]

No exemptions. Exemptions are, ultimatey, what allowed ObamaCare to pass. Please take a look at an 1850 classic, "The Law", by Frederic Bastiat, available from Amazon.com in English. He wrote this collection of essays as France was sliding down into the slime pit of Socialism in 1848 describes quite simply how the law can be perverted from protection of the group to legalized plunder.

Conservatives can fall into the same trap, which is why I call myself a Constitutionalist. [Getting caught up in the "Republican" snare is a whole different matter that we don't have time for today.] I would point out that Democrats, under the flag of being conservatives, brought us the McCarthyism of the 1950's, just like the left-wing wackos of the Democrat Party are bringing us the political correctness of this decade.