You are sorely misinformed. California's energy crisis had nothing to do with EPA rules, environmental activists, or any of the other things you probably believe.
Perhaps if the big three American auto makers had spent money on R&D figuring out ways of complying with EPA rules instead of lobbyists pressuring politicians to reverse them, they wouldn't be circling the drain today. As one news presenter commented at the time, "while American auto makers are claiming its too hard, the Japanese are doing it."
"You are sorely misinformed. California's energy crisis had nothing to do with EPA rules, environmental activists, or any of the other things you probably believe." - lucysmom
You are sorely misreading...or failing to understand what was written. Cutting off the electricity **surplus** to California with CO2 rules that made (or would have made) profits larger in non-California markets is the issue.
Correcting *that* one issue could be a little different than solving California's entire energy crisis as you've somehow managed to fantasize.