I believe the author nailed it correctly that California, in purposely making itself oil-import dependent, and in denying fraccing on its lands and seeking to prevent it as well on federal lands, is acting counter to national security interests.
Those interests include the minimization of military security presence within the Persian Gulf oil theater. In seeking to ban the feds from more US production from federal lands, it increases the need for this country for imported petroleum, some of which comes from the ME.
The shame in all this is California is blessed with some of the largest conventional oil fields ever discovered in the lower 48 (4 of the top 10). Huge quantities of crude production have occurred there and large amounts remain, if permitted to produce efficiently.
It should be aggravating for any US citizen, and most especially any California citizen, to see this potential not to be recognized so our country can lessen the influence of OPEC and the volatile ME.