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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the Big, Bad Pipeline

Wasn't she Meathead's wife on All in the Family?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  November 5th, 2011 at 01:30 PM  | 

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The habitual self-loathing of the American Left is perhaps its most endearing quality.

Most of us remember actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus from her lead role in the late, lamented CBS sitcom Watching Ellie.

Now she’s an expert on energy, international economy, and the environment. Here’s a video in which she expresses her opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline:

“Who can stop this mega-stupid mega-pipeline? You can, Mr. President.” Well, no not really. President Obama can stop this “brutally stupid money grab” from coming to the U.S., and he’s getting a lot of pressure from the Environmental Left to do just that. But he can’t stop the Canadians from building a pipeline to Vancouver and selling the stuff to the Chinese. If that happens, the Chinese will be exporting Canadian oil in tankers, while the U.S. will have to replace the oil with tanker imports. And tankers are a lot more environmentally threatening than pipelines.

To make sure Obama gets the message, thousands of protesters are going to join hands around the White House tomorrow, November 6, to remind him of their steadfast electoral support. A subtle hint, Mr. President.

But what makes Julia’s opposition to the pipeline and “Big Oil” so ironic is her very name, Louis-Dreyfus.

Louis Dreyfus, you see, is one of the world’s largest commodity trading firms. It is run by Julia’s bio-dad, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus.

William Louis-Dreyfus (born Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus; 1932) is a French-born American businessman. With his family’s net worth estimated at $2.9 billion by Forbes, he is one of the richest men in the world.[1] He is the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus Group.[2]

Through their affiliate, LDH Energy, Louis Dreyfus has interests in, among many other businesses, crude oil trading:

LDH Energy’s crude oil team actively participates in the US and European financial markets as well as the US physical markets. The crude market is made up of a vast array of crude types, bought and sold in multiple locations. These markets transact constantly as the world looks to the US and European markets on how to value their energy.

Now, I have no idea of "Old Christine’s" ties, financial or otherwise, to her father or his firm. But in our country there’s a long history of Rockefellers, Dukes and Pews whose families built fortunes in energy, only to see the family fortune go to support leftist causes by the second and third generation.

“Let us be the generation that ends the tyranny of Big Oil.” – Barack Obama

Cross-posted at my blog.


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  • bs61

    I’ve had my big hair days just like her, so I could relate!

    • bs61

      Not her message – why can’t stars keep their mouths shut and entertain?!

      • jrmax13

        I knew her family was very wealthy. I was just unaware of the extent. Criminy !
        You can buy a lot of good hair with 3 billion smackers.

        • dbuls

          you know,

          I’m not surprised that Julia’s family is rich. I thought she made it on her own, but probably not. Now, her loud mouth is getting in the way. I’m sure she has a car, or maybe a limo, that runs on gas. One of the most disgusting things is spoiled money. This appears to be Julia. This is probably a statement against her hard working, enterprising father. Apparently she was not happy with daddy’s profession and wants to protest it.

          What do you do when already wealthy people are trying to convince the rest of us that we shouldn’t have something? What would impress me is if Julia started a real company, like a car battery company, or a solar panel company, something which would really speak to her concern for renewable fuel, and not just someway to resurrect her career by being a left spokesperson.

  • texabama

    that energy source that fuels our vehicles and close to 40% of our electricity. (Fifty percent is from the even more “awful” coal!) What do these wunderkinds think will fuel their limos, jets and electronic gadgets if not oil? How reliable is their wind and solar in the middle of a snow storm? And when their power is shut off due to that snow storm how do they propose to run their generator?

    • JoeG

      oil makes 1% of US electricity, primarily in Hawaii and remote Alaska.

      See:

      http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states

      • izoneguy

        It provides almost 100% that is needed to make gasoline that runs America’s transportation system. Of course we have some electric coal powered cars.
        And I know some buses run on natural gas.

        But did you know petroleum was needed for other things?

        Oil Everywhere- Why Gas Prices Are Irrelevant, but Your iPhone?Isn?t

        There is virtually nothing in life that is not manufactured from oil, produced using oil, or is transported using oil-based vehicles. Even cars and trucks, which most look at as only using oil in the sense of gasoline as a fuel, are laden with oil-based products from the paints, the exterior body of the vehicle (eg. bumper, panels, etc.), the vinyls and plastics used to furnish the interior, and so on. Similarly, our daily lives are replete with thousands of tiny instances of oil usages which individually may seem insignificant, but on the macrocosmic scale are collectively huge. Even the roads you drive on are made of oil-based asphalt. Most soda and water bottles are recyclable, easing the guilt of those who feel remorse at potentially wasting a plastic container. Many fill their recycle bins each week, proud of their contribution back to society. However, the caps from said containers are made of a number of different polymers that are not classifiable in the 1-7 recycling scale and are therefore disposed of in the trash bin next to the recycling bin. This is not to diminish the act of recycling, but it is a magnificent oversight in the system.

        • esquip17

          Still, she’s a beautiful woman and a great actress. Still, such people have an unfortunate history of espousing outrageous causes. Read the latest Peggy Noonan column who deftly explains why the media is so inclined to leftist causes.

      • texabama

        I didn’t check the stats nationally and was referring to a past electric statement and included natural gas as oil. Big mistake. The correct statement is that if we aren’t willing to use nuclear and condemn fossil fuels then we will be degrading our electrical output by 2/3. Wind, solar, water and geothermal aren’t getting us there.

      • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

        If you consider natural gas as well as fuel oil, you’re looking at about 1/4 of US electrical generation. It makes sense to do that because the Louis-Dreyfuses of the world will (irrationally, reflexively) object to anything done by an oil company, and that includes the production and sale of natural gas.

        The bird-brains are pretty seriously damaging our nation by insisting on renewables, as it happens. Renewability is a nice feature, but not a necessary one, and certainly not a sufficient one to recommend an otherwise wretched power source like wind or solar power.

        That woman irritates me even when she’s acting. Seriously, who gives a rat’s posterior what she thinks when she pretends to be using her brain?

  • NeoKong

    Or did anyone else here detect the vagueness of an implied threat ?

    “Just in case you have forgotten all that, next Sunday on Nov. 6th thousand of people are gonna’ hold hands and completely surround your house…the White House.”

    You could hear the obvious contempt she has for him for making grand and green promises and then breaking them. She was talking to him like he was the gardener at her home and couldn’t water the flowers right.

    “We have every confidence you can do this right because we would be very very sad if you didn’t work here anymore.”

    • http://stevemaley.com Steve Maley

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  • skipfoss

    Who the hell made this half ass actress an expert on oil pipe lines Ms. Dufus can barely act let alone be an expert on oil,she did’t stop to think that canada is going to sell their oil no matter wich way it flows and when you load it on ships there is a lot bigger risk to the enviroment . If it runs aground it spills its contents if it capsizes it spills its contents if some fool blows it up ispills its contents and we have no chance to stop it she is so stupid if you look up the word all you find is her picture

  • constitutional

    because she’s an expert on greedy guys.

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_money_did_Jerry_Seinfeld_make_per_episode

    • constitutional

      I wonder if she has a problem with the many ‘natural resources’ they destroyed on Seinfeld? Like perhaps the car they smashed–or the grass they stepped on.

      It’s a little strange to hear Mrs. (Ms?) Dreyfus complain about “natural resources” and “big oil” when she A) Participates in “destroying natural resources.” and B) Drives a car.

      • edintexas

        What makes you think she drives a car? If she lives in NYC, we might help support her subway and bus system with our fuel taxes diverted from the Highway “Trust” Fund to “Mass Transit”.

        Or Daddy (or her allowance?) could provide a chauffeur (driver for those in Rio Linda).

    • gator_hoo

      as long as you condemn the lavish lifestyle you are living

      • texabama

        Read an article (don’t remember where) that discussed this phenomenon and compared it to the Middle Ages when the wealthy would pay “indulgences” to the Catholic Church (such as endowing artwork or a cathedral) to make up for their sins. You don’t have to change you behavior just pony up some money and make sure the masses aren’t doing it.

        • keysconservative

          His Holiness Pope Gore II created this scheme so affluent 1%’ers can literally pay for their sin of destroying the environment with their private jets and heating/cooling their 9,000 square foot mansions.
          Just like in the Middle Ages it doesn’t actually accomplish anything but they ‘feel’ better about doing it.

        • spinoneone

          Indulgences. Go here:

          http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/liberal-indulgences/

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        In his comedy podcasts he went off one day about the hypocritical Hollywood celebrities and why they always get on these left wing causes.

        They are so afraid of people knowing just how rich they really are. So they dress like crap and drive around in an electric car. But in reality they spend money and waste energy like there was no tomorrow.

        And many of the most “progressively conscious” Celebrities treat the people who work for them and serve them like crap.

  • jakeofalltrades

    The problem is that she isn’t sitting on a couch with Newt, right?

  • DerKrieger

    …that if they make it difficult for we in the US to obtain oil that somehow we’ll decide to switch to alternatives, of which there are none.

    Geniuses like Dreyfus need to be forced to lay out their alternatives including detailed economic analyses. They can no longer be allowed to simply be against oil and other fossil fuels without presenting viable alternatives.

    If she’s against XL, great. What is she for?

    • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

      If you ask them to produce alternative energy analyses, they’ll do it. Progressives are very good at putting on lab coats and lying.

      Only, if you examine the analyses closely, you’ll discover irrationally optimistic assumptions about the production of energy by wind and solar, based on predictions of future technological improvements and taking the rating of the wind turbines as actual production, and other fictions of that nature.

      You see, it’s all a game to them. They actually think that the electricity will continue magically to come out of the wall and into their iPods, and that that has nothing at all to do with them inventing dishonest statistics about wind turbine productivity. When they can’t power their iPods anymore, they will sincerely wonder how it happened, and find a way to blame big corporations for their own wanton destructiveness.

  • johnt

    but they do kill worms. I’ll go with protecting the birds, screw the worms. And neurotics desperate for causes.

  • spinoneone

    do not exist unless: a) we really go all out for nuclear power; or, b) rewind the economy to something approaching 1850.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      We would run out of whale oil very quickly.

      • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

        Nuclear power produces electricity. Electricity will not substitute for most oil applications. And no, electric cars will not solve that problem, even if it were plausible to replace all internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles in some time frame sooner than 30 years.

        I haven’t seen an all-electric airplane of any decent size so far, nor have chemical engineers produced a way to spin plastics out of straw (though they’re actually working on that.) Uranium does not lubricate moving parts very well, either.

        For that matter, if we attempted to run 80% of modern America using nuclear power, we’d run out of uranium a lot sooner than we’re going to run out of oil.

        We continue to use fossil fuels, not because Big Eeeeeevil Corporations have us by the short ones, but because fossil fuels continue to be the cheapest, safest, most versatile, most accessible, and most plentiful source of the energy we need to run the economy that lifted billions of people out of poverty.

  • kowalski

    Obama should make her Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. She could bring along Kramer and in one stroke the Presidency would be able to demonstrate:

    1) The continued willingness of the American people to suffer economic hardship because of exorbitant energy prices.

    2) The continued willingness of the Louis-Dreyfus family to do anything and everything in their power to contribute to the economy of France.

    3) Have a few wicked pratfalls and eye-rolling stunts that could serve as a basis for YouTube outtakes for the next generation of “Seinfeld: Sponge-Worthy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”

    4) Convince the Saudi Arabians that they shouldn’t be drilling for oil, either.

    • kowalski

      Ron Howard (Opie) has removed his video with “The Fonz” talking about his “Call To Action” to support Obama. I wish I could show it again here. Even the Huffington Post can’t display it on their web page. I wonder how long this one will last.

      • earlgrey

        for Ron Howard or Henry WInkler (i never understood why we were supposed to think he was good looking), was this video about just supporting Obama or did it have to do with the pipeline.

        I am kind of surprised that Howard would care at all about what people think of him (he is so powerful). I wonder if Obama disappointed him or something.

  • usedtobelib

    She might as well have been, though.

  • Darin_H

    take a private jet back to Hollyweird, and soak in my giant hot tub in my giant mansion.”

    Whatta twit.

  • streetwise

    perhaps we should defer to her expertise :)

    • http://stevemaley.com Steve Maley

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  • norris

    If this pipe line is built it would create more jobs than Obama has in his whole term.

  • fibgirl

    I won’t be watching her big mouth anymore…I guess the special interests that she’s referring to is job creators that will be putting thousands of people to work in good paying jobs. I guess that when Obama vetoes this, that we can yell from the rooftops that he just shut down hundreds of thousands of jobs. I cannot believe the stupidity of the masses,and the educated in hollywood.

    I agree, show me an alternative that works as good and is not 3 times expensive as oil. Usually with green-approved products, we get expensive crap that does not work….i.e. mercury light bulbs!! Where is the common sense????

  • renl57

    Obama has cynically avoided telling the American public what his own experts told him.

    The Energy Information Administration (EIA.gov), part of the DoE, has forecast that in the year 2035, less than 14% of world energy needs will be met by renewables like wind and solar:

    Year 2035
    Renewables: 14%
    Coal and oil: 58%
    Natural gas: 22%
    Nuclear: 6%

    In fact, EIA forecasts that in the year 2035, the world will be using more coal and oil than it uses now (so much for “ending the tyranny of Big Oil”).

    http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/index.cfm

    I’m seeing comments on lefty blogs like HuffPo where the lefties really think that our national goal is to move to a 100% renewables-based economy. They got that idea from Obama Himself, who cleverly didn’t tell them what his own experts at EIA have told him.

    BTW: I don’t know if you were joking or what, but the part of Gloria Stivic on “All in the Family” was played by Sally Struthers. More recently, Ms. Struthers has been an advocate of such causes as the Christian Children’s Fund.

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus was featured on shows like Seinfeld.

    • ericblair00

      Gabe Elsner, Deputy Director of the Checks and Balances Project, told DeSmogBlog that, ?if it?s true that the Acting Administrator Gruenspecht called this report a ?piece of garbage? he was right, because it deliberately leaves out the six other ways in which coal, oil and natural gas get government handouts. The fossil fuel welfare tab is tens or hundreds of times greater than the cost of pro-renewable policy support.?

      Elsner says that this report is essentially a re-issue of the 2007 Alexander study that was designed to defend public welfare to the fossil fuel industry, such as oil and gas industry subsidies. The new EIA analysis fails to take into account the full range of subsidies at play in the energy sector, and therefore delivers a favorable analysis of fossil fuels over renewables.

      By excluding a lot of the other avenues of direct federal support given disproportionately to fossil fuel interests, as well as financial tools designed to assist dirty energy companies, the report is just plain faulty, or ?fuzzy math? as some guy once said.

      Missing from the EIA calculations are a plethora of advantages the dirty energy industry enjoys over clean tech companies, including outsized direct subsidies for mature industries, publicly funded pollution cleanup assistance, cheap insurance, low-interest federal loans, extensive tax breaks, and — most gut wrenching in the wake of Tim DeChristopher?s imprisonment — insanely cheap public land leases for oil and gas drilling, as well as access to public lands and tax credits to build transmission lines.

      On Monday, the Checks and Balances Project, Greenpeace U.S. and Oil Change International plan to file this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request [PDF] to the EIA seeking records of the meetings and communications between the EIA and the three GOP Congressmembers? offices, as well as other materials used in compiling the report.

  • ombd

    God help us if leftist loons like her are given free rein. On the bright side, we may have learned this week that God just may not be a Democrat … http://bit.ly/qVdDUt

  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    A reporter asked her who her Congress critter was and she couldn’t answer. That’s how “smart” these so-called “stars” are.

    • guidvce

      with the Hollyweird types. They have no clue of what they speak, they just say the lines and hope they are currying favor with the left by doing so. Folks seem to forget that actors are constantly playing a part where they pretend to be someone they are not. I regularly discount anything they say on issues, and try to figure out what part they are playing. Everyone of them is a phony.
      frankieb, loved the line re: McCaskill. Being a Missouri resident, I will be voting her out when the time comes.

  • hunter

    Cya, hypocrite loser.

  • hitthedeck

    Through Julia’s digestive system.

  • spolson

    do people who play pretend for a living feel a need to pontificate. Their talent is pretending. Shut up. I like to watch you pretend. That is all.

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