A substantial amount of electricity for the City of Los Angeles comes from coal plants in northern Arizona, so this is not an idle threat.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Don’t forget the water as well. Arizona has been pretty proactive regarding water and even in droughts has not had to resort to hard core water use rules and in fact has been able to sell what they did not use to CA. I don’t think the Imperial Valley would be happy if they had to live on their allotment and not get any extra from AZ.