One More Reason to Say No to an LNG Plant in the Port

London, Long Beach and the world of terror

How horrible for the people of England. The recent terrorism in the UK defies any description or reasoning. It is important for Long Beach to re-think any possibility of painting a bright red target sign on this City by positioning an LNG plant smack dead in the Port (pictured to the right). Yes, there are other things in the Port that could go boom, but LNG is particularly dangerous and why add fuel to the fire (to use a bad pun in this case)?

Someone needs to convince me why we know better than the State of California which did a report on the siting of LNG plants and decided the Port of Los Angeles (inches away from Long Beach) was in an earthquake fault area and was not a good place to have something like an LNG plant.

Also, supposedly if we build an LNG plant our gas bills will go down? I think that only works if we then build a system to convert LNG (liquid) to gas because that's what our homes are piped for.

When it comes to safety, I say let's err on the side of caution. Sure, sure, some of you will say, well then we shouldn't have buses and subways and trains because that's what the terrorists went after. Yeah, that is true. But I say in response, let's not tempt them to try something different and more spectacular.