Make it stop.

After a blessed couple of days when nobody seemed to be talking about Malibu and LNG, it's back in the news and quickly hurtling toward information overload.

The Ayn Rand Institute is now using Cabrillo Port as an opportunity to bash environmentalists in general. Because the ARI guys are viewed by many as "crazy right wing bomb throwers," their screed probably doesn't do much to help BHP Billitin's case for the project but it does stand in stark contrast to the latest anti-LNG diatribie by Malibu Surfside News "Reporter" Hans Laetz (who is more a "columnist/blogger" than a "reporter" these days as his editorial point of view typically obscures the straight "who, what, when, why, where" of standard reporting.)

So, if that isn't enough-- the Ayn Rand guys on one side, Laetz on the other-- I also note that some nut-job left a comment on this blog trying to put the Long Beach LNG project back in play. [Note to poster: Long Beach is dead.]

This cacophony of emotion and opinion has pretty much confused the issue to the point where only the real die-hards can figure out what's really going on. Thankfully, the light is at the end of the tunnel and the regulatory hearings are finally almost here.