Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the Big, Bad Pipeline
Wasn't she Meathead's wife on All in the Family?
Posted by Steve Maley ( Diary)
Saturday, November 5th at 1:30PM EST
33 Comments
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:
I'd say that means she has an interest in Canadian oil being traded to China.
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
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Pipe line skipfoss Saturday, November 5th at 2:07PM EST ( link)
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
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"and now, I'm going to hop in my Limo take a private jet back to Hollyweird, and soak in my giant hot tub in my giant mansion.”
Whatta twit.
norris Sunday, November 6th at 1:09AM EST ( link)
If this pipe line is built it would create more jobs than Obama has in his whole term.
http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2011/11/05/julia-louis-dreyfus-and-the-big-bad-pipeline/ |
