How is it a scam if California is getting clean power? WA and BC are free to supply their own power needs however they see fit. CA using hydro power, WA using coal, and BC using coal emits less pollution than CA, WA, and BC all using coal.
Why should we care if CA is stupid enough to care about emissions in Canada?
Although you're obviously a parody poster because no one is really that stuipd:
California implemented their regulatory regime specifically to reduce carbon emissions based explicitly on the belief that doing so would reduce
global warming. If CA doesn't effect a net carbon reduction via their regulatory system then the premise upon which the system is based fails completely.
The stated purpose of the regulation having failed utterly, what purpose then the regulatory system itself? It's not having its intended effect of producing a net reduction in
global carbon emissions. It's not even raising revenue for California (though it is for BC, AB, WA & various and sundry third world thugocracies). It's purely damaging Californians by making it more expensive to live or do business there while providing absolutely no benefit to the state. That's fine. Amazingly stupid but fine.