California is very poorly connected to the rest of the country in terms of pipelines https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/2021-03/U.S.%20P...

Yes it is a net exporter of oil, but not oil for gasoline. The use is a net importer of oil used for gasoline. That's because oil companies have chosen to not make the investments needed to refine domestic oil. We have to import for that.

The article mentions that California no longer is. Due to closures it is now a net importer of oil.

Sure, I'm trying to say that the US is not dependent on oil from the middle east, it produces a lot by itself

CA mandates its own blend which it is dependent on imports for