california

World GDP is about $87.25 trillion and California GDP is about $2 trillion, so California has more than 2% of world GDP.

Take the recent push by California unions for a $15hr minimum wage - except for their own members.

If you're thinking of using the runoff from local rains, consider that California is in a drought.

An electric car generates less than 25% of CO2 as an equivalent gasoline car in California [0].

We've secured over $320mil in funding, have a $1.5bil valuation, and are currently expanding our business into California and Texas.

A lot of California pollution is indirect, as in produced from factories outside of the state.

Failing that, solar stills are much cheaper than reverse-osmosis to build, and in south California with loads of sun cheap and effective.

Producing 2% of the world's greenhouse gases is not bad at all if California performs 2+% of the world's greenhouse gas-producing activities.

The California Air Resources Board and the EPA have achieved quite a lot.

If you look at GDP per person in the population, California is only 14th in the US ($58K per person -- Delaware at #1 is $112.

I'm not 100% sure how California public utilities commission works, but in most states, the company would in fact need government permission to do upgrades.

> The California Air Resources Board and the EPA have achieved quite a lot.

Also, "Over the past three years, electric rates in California rose by 2.18 cents per kilowatt-hour—about four times the rate nationally—as more solar and wind power has come online.

Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” “I hope you don’t buy it,” he told his audience at a think tank in Washington in May 2014.

California also has the worst electrical infrastructure in the nation, and is not doing something like "requiring the EV people who will stress it" to pay a tax for improvements, or if they wanted to be punitive, a tax on gas cars to pay for it, or anything other than saying what a great idea this would be and pushing for it on the environmental side.

California decouples utility profits from demand/quantity supplied, and has done so since about 1980.

California doesn't burn coal in-state, but it still gets around 5%-7% [1] of its energy from coal via imports from five coal plants.

But also consider California's GDP is about 2-3% of the world GDP.