The absence of much oil and natural gas production in NV and AZ, the distance from the Permian Basin in TX and southeastern NM, and the green energy lunacy in CA necessitate another way to get petroleum products. The answer should be using a harbor on the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico, for a deep water port for tankers. Mexico may be a pit of corruption but they are persuadable with the proper financial arrangements.
I understand. But it would be more beneficial to lock down California’s whole supply infrastructure in the name of National Interest. They are threatening the security and welfare interests of the whole country because they are in control of all west coast port supply. It is not theirs to screw with and control. Supply does not belong to them just because they border the coast. This is why Interstate Commerce laws were put into law in the first place. So that States like California cannot regulate or hamper physical supply to the rest of the Nation. They have no right to Dam up the river and block the rest of the country from that supply access. Intentional or not...