[FreedomPoster]

Well here in California they lost money at 10+ cents a kilowatt-hour

Well, heck, there's your problem. When you're not generating your own power, and you have to buy power from 3 states away at the selling utilities' marginal cost of production (i.e. most expensive-to-generate kWhs), no wonder.

[DB]

So interstate trade is bad?

Many states buy California food. Many don’t grow their own food. Is that really any different?

Actually I live in a county that generates much more power than the county uses. Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is here along with other natural gas burning plants.

We (I) simply got screwed.