Self-inflicted ... required propietary state blend of gasoline and regulated the refiners that produce it into closure. Never took Economics 101.
Smuggling gas from Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon will be another potential organized crime racket.
The Commerce Department, NIST, the Department of Energy, etc., should establish a single, year-round, national blend of gasoline to increase the efficiency, lower the cost, and increase the fungibility of America's gasoline supply.
The Defense Production Act should be invoked to build or complete energy trasmission projects to states and localities with sensitive Defense installations.
The Global Climate Change Nonsense has weakend the resilience and the scalability of the nation's energy infrastructure in the event of a Defense Emergency.