Ted Danson: 'We Shouldn't Just Close Some Coasts to Oil Drilling - We Should Close Them All'
The star of the hit series now in syndication "Cheers" made a strong statement about offshore drilling on the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill.
"We should not just close some of our coasts to drilling," wrote Ted Danson at the Huffington Post Tuesday. "We should close all of them":
President Obama's proposal to close the Atlantic and eastern Gulf to drilling for at least five years was a good one, but it didn't go far enough. The especially-vulnerable Arctic Ocean is still on the table. Last year I went to Barrow, the northernmost city in America, and had the honor of meeting the Inupiat people. Many native Alaskans still live a subsistence existence tied closely to the Arctic Ocean, a great gray and blue expanse that defines life there.
We worry about prices at the pump today, but native Alaskans and Arctic wildlife are the ones who will pay the price for offshore drilling when an accident occurs. And it will happen. In the Gulf, we had emergency resources and personnel who could show up in hours and scatter to shore when a storm rolled in, only to be back on the job as soon as weather cleared; in the Arctic, you have none of those abilities.
We should not just close some of our coasts to drilling. We should close all of them. Offshore drilling will always result in another disaster. Gas prices at the pump are a politically volatile thing, but they aren't determined by domestic drilling; they are driven by global demand in a global market. Gas prices were halved in the second half of 2008 because demand dropped for purely economic reasons, and they dropped 30 cents in the months immediately following the Deepwater Horizon blowout. We need to focus on a clean energy future that doesn't leave us hostage to seesawing daily gas prices.
For those that have forgotten, the nickname for Danson's character on "Cheers" was "Mayday Malone."
This should likely be changed to "Doomsday Malone."
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I have a new export product for our economy
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:47am.
Can we export all the liberal media & Hollywood types as a product and get something useful in return? They would fit in nicely in China & then China could right down the debt a little in exchange for their new happy State slaves.
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so if we increase supply
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:49am.
so if we increase supply wouldn't that reduce the price according to supply and demand?
Libs don't believe in supply and demand economics.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 9:09am.
They always think that there is a cabal of cigar-lighting-with-hundred-dollar-bills fat cat corporate tycoons that raise prices at a whim, just to see ordinary citizens suffer. Either that, or to line their pockets. I work with one, but he doesn't even have the courage to call himself "liberal"...that would require him to defend something, and he doesn't. All he does is pick at other people's opinions. But I digress...he believes that in any industry, the corporations just arbitrarily set prices as they please. It must suck to feel that you're always screwed by somebody...
Ted Danson
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:51am.
And all others calling for idiocy like this should immediately have their driver's licenses revoked permanently. They should also be denied any service or product that either uses petroleum in it's manufacture or transport.
Now Dan, Ted has made a lot
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:55am.
Now Dan, Ted has made a lot of money acting. You can't expect him to be an economist as well.
Poor dumb thing. ( Ted that is)
Is this the same Ted Danson...
Submitted by CaptHerp on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:56am.
...who said that the Earth would be destroyed in ten years if people kept sawing down trees in the rain forest (about twenty years ago)?
What, did he play an environmentalist once and therefore he's an expert?
Go sit on a tree, Ted.
I think it was fish in the ocean, Captain
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:21am.
Or some other wild claim.
Ted needs to be quiet. He isn't even good looking any longer, and he was never that great of an actor to begin with.
What is it with these "celebrities" that makes them think their idiot opinions matter to anyone other than their clique?
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Actually, I believe he said
Submitted by Smartypants on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:23am.
Actually, I believe he said all the oceans would be destroyed--something like that. Which, with what they say is going to happen as the earth warms, would not be a bad thing. I mean, if the ice caps are going to melt and flood the world, maybe it's a good idea to destroy the oceans now so there is less water to flood everything.
You see, I can use equivalent logic to your average tree hugger.
Yes, and Ted Danson Deserves the Nobel Prize
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:47am.
For that. In the 1980's he predicted that the oceans would be dead in 10 years.
Oil Drilling Lessens not increases pollution.
Submitted by richb313 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:57am.
There are natural oil seeps everywhere, especially offshore. I have personnaly seen this on many occasions. Drilling and producing oil reduces these natural seeps. In the Gulf of Mexico it is estimated that between 500,000 to 1,500,000 bbl of oil seep every year. Off the coast of California, especially by Santa Barbara, you can see it at the beaches. If you want oil on your beaches then stop drilling. If you want to lessen and eventually stop these seeps then drilling and production is the only solution.
I am tired of having to repeatedly expalin this. I was part of the SWARS project off California which decommisend hunderds of wells not because there was no oil but because California only wants to use oil and does not want to produce it.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
ignorant fools
Submitted by ohio granny on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:59am.
Liberals supossedly worry about poor people. How can making gasoline cost $5. - $10. a gallon help the poor? Liberals in Hollywood live in fantasy land and they show their ollective ignorance every time they open their mouth.
"Gas prices at the pump are a
Submitted by Gat New York on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:00am.
"Gas prices at the pump are a politically volatile thing, but they aren't determined by domestic drilling; they are driven by global demand in a global market. Gas prices were halved in the second half of 2008 because demand dropped for purely economic reasons."
He is right, oil prices are driven by global demand. But he left out the work "supply."
The reason gas prices came down fast in 2008 was because Bush's order to allow off-shore drilling had an immediate affect on future supply and the commodity market. That's how it works which is why Danson's comment is ignorant.
I read that he first got into environmentalism by sabotaging outdoor board properties which would make him a criminal.
Common failings*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:08am.
I have found a common failure among ideological progressives. They never think of consequences, never use facts, and concentrate on very general sound bites.
Like most "greenies" they think oil only produces gasoline. So Ted, you should have stuck to being a bartender. Try studying this partial list of products we use every day that come from oil
What he has that's made from oil
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 11:09am.
I bet we could identify at least half a dozen things that was made from oil that it on Danson, like the frames for his glasses, or the lenses, makeup, shampoo, whatever, things like that if we see a picture of him.
Anyone demanding no more oil is demanding to have their throat cut from the casual use of all the products that are made from it.
-Jon
Danson likes oil
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 12:32pm.
Ted Danson likes oil, and the myriad of products that are derived from the refining of oil. I think he would prefer gasoline at $10 or $20 a gallon. He doesn't care about the price, because he has tons of money. Danson wants less cars on the road, but he would probably accept that you and I drive modified golf carts, as long as he can blow by us in his ten mile per gallon sports car.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Hmmmm
Submitted by MOONSTRUCK on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:09am.
I wonder how many liberal's my SUV would get to the gallon?
They DO NOT care about anyone or thing except themselves.
Two words: Whoopi. Goldberg.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:15am.
Case closed.
Whoopi is a genius.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:30am.
She wore those massive hats on Star Trek Next Generation to encase her enormous intellectual capacity. Damn, she said some wise stuff.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
It was all scripted.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:39am.
You've seen (heard) what happens when it isn't!
Ted Danson Should Close His Mouth
Submitted by agentmax86 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:17am.
Ted Danson is dead wrong on drilling. We have a tremendous amount of oil in this country, both on and off shore. Continuing to buy oil from other countries when we could be drilling our own is insane. Had we expanded offshore drilling 20 or 30 years ago, we would certainly not be paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas. Obama and the Congress have FAILED miserably to address this issue. And Obama's policy of investing in renewable energy is cripling this nation (as well as his other policies).
Agent, the political left has
Submitted by Smartypants on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:28am.
Agent, the political left has not failed on this issue. They know very well what they are doing. They have always been against domestic drilling (heck, any domestic energy other than pie in the sky nonsense) because they want expensive gas and energy prices. $5 or $6 gasoline puts significant limits on the mobility of the population and makes poor people more dependent upon government programs (and mass transportation) to save the world. Even more, they feel that people will be compelled to move back to urban areas to be closer to jobs, shopping, etc. Liberals absolutely hate human sprawl. High gas prices will help prop up the urban areas that represent their base. The added benefit is that people will start driving the small European deathtraps they are so fond of on the left. Fewer trucks, fewer SUVs, etc. Rest assured, Barack Obama only wants cheap gas to the extent it costs votes. If he can convince voters he has no control over it, then he's more than fine with outrageous gasoline prices.
Some people are waking up to
Submitted by Semus on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:42am.
Some people are waking up to the malevolence of the left, after a long sleep.
How about mr. danson giving
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:23am.
How about mr. danson giving up all his oil based energy use?
AS THE BRITS SAY, 'TOMMYROT!"
Submitted by Herbster on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:26am.
Another genius heard from. Can Susan Saranwrap be far behind? Does Danson have "L" and "R" on his shoes.....?
My guess, Herb, is that he
Submitted by MikeB on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 4:16pm.
My guess, Herb, is that he has TGIF on his shoes for "Toes Go In First".
Spoke directly with Satan...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:27am.
last night on his cell. Satan is profoundly embarrassed by Ted and will be calling in his soul shortly. Satan has prepared an excellent punishment for Ted for eternity. He plans to run 24/7 looped videos of Whoopi's movies for him.
If we could harness air the
Submitted by Davart on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:28am.
If we could harness air the hot air and methane coming off the bullsh!t that we hear from Hollywierd - we'd solve our energy problems. Seriously does any care what some washed up actor from the 80's thinks?
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Don't leave out another valuable....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:39am.
resource.....Washington D.C. Both parties!
ted dudson, The good news is that the sea level is dropping
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:32am.
657 new islands discovered
sea level
Two words: Green Sharia Look how well it works.
You Didn't Build That.
Obama Delivered
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:36am.
Obama delivered on his promise to stop the oceans from rising.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Let me see if I have this straight.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:36am.
We are to never drill another oil well, which could mean the end of the American way of life for over 300M people, their security, and the hundreds of millions of people around the globe whom we help so that 4000 people can continue a subsistence lifestyle that this detached, elitist multi-millionaire considers quaint?
Sorry, no sale.
"Fossil Fuel" Another lie?
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:41am.
Read about the Russian theory some time ago, so I looked up this question again. New proof!
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Is Oil a Fossil Fuel? http://amlibpub.com/essays/is-oil-fossil-fuel.html
The December 8, 2006 issue of the scientific journal Nature will contain an article asserting that abundant quantities of methane have been conclusively shown to exist on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. “We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin," reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator. Methane, a key hydrocarbon and the principal component of natural gas, actually has been found throughout the solar system. If methane can be produced by an abiotic (or abiogenic) process, so can more complex hydrocarbons. Once you have methane, “the rest is easy,” says Stanford Penner, Ph.D.
Dr. Penner, who is an authority on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, notes that Russian and Ukrainian scientists have produced an elegant proof that abiotic oil production (from intense pressure and high temperatures at least 100 kilometers below the earth's surface) is entirely consistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but that no such proof has ever been put forth for the fossil fuel theory. In fact, he states that there is no “fossil fuel theory,” merely a hypothesis for which no proof has ever been set forth.
Furthermore, oil has been discovered in the earth's Archeozoic rock formations. These are the most ancient of rocks, which were formed before any plants or animals existed on earth. So petroleum here must have had an inorganic origin, rather than being produced from dead dinosaurs and ancient forests, as is commonly believed.
Finally, some older oil wells previously regarded as depleted have been known to be replenished from below. This is certainly evidence that oil is being produced at depths in the earth (where there are no fossil remains) and being pushed upward by intense pressure from below. The best example of this is Green Island in the Gulf of Mexico. When all the oil that could profitably be extracted had been pumped out, the wells there were closed and forgotten about. Then, twenty years later, those wells were found to contain more oil than before any had been removed! If petroleum is constantly produced by an inorganic process, we are never going to run out of oil.
All of which shows that political policies based on the idea that the world is running out of oil are based on a false theory. Just like claims about man-made global warming ruining the earth (see our chart on global warming). Both ideas depend on “consensus,” a popular belief that prevails because of constant repetition rather than scientific proof.
http://amlibpub.com/essays/is-oil-fossil-fuel.html
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
I call it HydroCarbons
Submitted by richb313 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:03pm.
I read that same research about 10 years ago while I was working offshore. Since then I have refused to call oil a fossil fuel but more correctly a HydroCarbon.
Hope that isn't Ted's media
Submitted by Clemenza on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:42am.
Hope that isn't Ted's media photo.
Makes former Sammy "Mayday" Malone look like a poofter.
Just sayin.
LOL!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:44am.
That photo of Ted pretty much sums it up.
No Challenge
Submitted by dan iroticiv on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:46am.
I can expect a hollywood hypocrite liberal to talk this nonsense, but I was amazed that the so called conservative Joe S. didn't even challenge him.
As long as we're barking orders...
Submitted by Tim Graham on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:53am.
I think we should make Ted Danson walk to everything.
Ted's excellent adventure
Submitted by Mulligan22 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:58am.
I saw this guy on morning Joe today. They were all happy to see and hear from him. He was spouting his nonsense about how drilling for oil here will not affect the price of gasoline. His explanation made no sense and no one challenged him.
He went on about how we are falling behind other countries and need to get to alternative sources of energy. He gave Germany as an example of the leading alternative energy country.
Germany may be the leading alternative energy producer but this has yet to allow them to shut down one conventional power plant. Alternative energy is too iffy so even when you have it you still need a more reliable alternative to alternative energy. Nukes, natty gas and coal come to mind.
The panel all agreed we need to get to that alternative energy to get us off of oil. So just what is the alternative to oil? No one on the panel asked. But they all agreed we need to start using it here as other countries apparently already have.
I'd also like to know just how M. Joe's crew gets to work each day? What alternative sources do they use?
Ted and crew show must think most of us are stupid.
We'd have more than enuf oil..
Submitted by brutony1 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:58am.
If we scooped it out of Teddy's hair and ass every day-that could fill up half the SUV's in this country! When will these libs shut their pie holes, and when will the MSM stop covering it and quoting them as if it was the Gospel of the Lord?
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
No Growth Teddy
Submitted by rammingspeed on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:14pm.
If Ted Danson weren't independently wealthy, or somehow living off the government teat, he'd be on his way toward conservatism. That's because as an average person, he'd feel the pain and fear of real economic troubles. That fear and pain would drive him to investigate and not be satisfied until he found the truth, because his life would depend on it. Then he'd know he'd been had by eco freaks and just plain liars on the political left. Many of us who post at NB have had our day being silly tools, just like Ted Danson. But living real life made us mature.
Putting on some glasses
Submitted by GONAVY on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:36pm.
does not equate to being intellectual. Geez, Ted didn't your handlers tell you that?
Recognition
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:48pm.
Methinks ol' Teddy is still pining for the days when everybody knew his name.
In Hollyweird, any press is good press, even if it's to display one's total, vaccous ignorance in all its vapid glory.
Well done, Ted. You've once again opened your mouth and "removed all doubt" just in case anyone may have still been wondering.
And the total IQ of humanity has thus been diminished by his belchings.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
The Oceans? Are they dead
Submitted by danbo on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 1:04pm.
The Oceans? Are they dead yet? Ted?
"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)
ted danson on drilling
Submitted by mjhawkeye on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 2:08pm.
Remember when Danson was drilling Whoopi? How is it this guy gets pub?
I repeat, remember when Danson and Goldberg were doing the nasty together? And people actually listen to this has been.
Here is an interesting story*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 3:07pm.
Remember the sequence of events after the DeepwaterHorizon explosion.
La, Miss and Ala officials immediately went into action, placing "booms" along the coastal areas to protect the wetlands. The coast guard promptly started preventing the use of the "booms" and even confiscated many of them. Officials and experts from gulf states universities, familiar with the oil industry, all cried out for BP NOT to use the dispersants. That the oil would disintegrate in the gulf as a natural process. The oil that would make it to shore could be collected by the "booms". All of these experts were ignored. MMS and the coast guard allowed the dispersants to be used untl they found out the particular dispersant being used which had earlier been deemed "a violation" due to its toxicity.
After reading this article, consider that none of the information provided was included in Obama's "SPECIAL REPORT" on the BP spill as well as other information from the oil experts and engineers that were on the task force. They were so angered by the reports inaccuracy, that many of them requested their names be removed from the document arguing that the document had been altered after they signed it.
The media has concentrated on the deaths of a few birds and critters. La WWand F has stated that the deaths were no more than normal for such an event or even a hurricane. Thousands of birds are killed every day from wind farms but never that news makes it to the media.
Again today, a year later, all over the internet are photos of oil covered pelicans. No mention of the people along the coast that are now suffering from health problems with all having the same symptoms. No mention of the severity of the economic damage done to the gulf coast by a multitude of incompetent federal employees and ideological bureaucrats.
I suppose to the liberal media, dead pelicans are more important to continuing the drilling moratorium than the multitude of violations committed by BP now resulting in the illness of hundreds of people.
anti-prevention efforts
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 4:22pm.
I still can't believe that no one's gone after the federal government for actively PREVENTING cleanup efforts or the preventive methods that were going towards reducing the severity of the oil spill. And then to force BP to use the dispersants, especially the toxic ones? Um, Saddam's mustard gas, hello!
All that stuff you said about the people suffering from the various maladies as a result of the GOVERNMENT'S INTERVENTION, just shows they don't have any value on life....human life that is.
-Jon
EEEWwwwww!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 5:59pm.
I think I just threw up in my mouth.....and I'm not quite sure which one of them is responsible.
Hey, no fair. Danson was a brother back then.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 6:02pm.
And a spiffy dresser, too.
Were those Beers at Cheers real?
Submitted by rogue operator on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 3:35pm.
One suspects Danson might have a touch of the "wet brain syndrome."
Ted, you ignorant slut! It's
Submitted by MikeB on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 4:11pm.
Ted, you ignorant slut! It's been, what, 25 years now since you so piously exclaimed that we had only 10 years to clean up the oceans or they'd be dead? And now you want to give advice on energy policy? What are your qualifications again? Let's see ... "attended Stanford University ... got interested in drama in second year ... transferred to Carnegie-Mellon ... " nope, no degree in the sciences listed ... no degree of any kind listed. So, we should listen to your pontifications, why?
And, Ted, since you are so piously green in your pontifical statements, I am sure you are completely off the electricity grid, your "carbon footprint" is as small as that of an African Bushman, and you don't drive one of those evil gasoline burning vehicles, right?
IGNORANT HYPOCRITE!
This is the same idiot who
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 7:13pm.
This is the same idiot who said in the 1980s that there would be 'no life in the oceans' today.
I'd like to see a law that bans actors from every trying to 'make a difference' because they're just so stupid they shouldn't bother trying. It's like sitting a toddler behind the controls of a battleship and hoping that he doesn't blow something up.
Typical
Submitted by Bob K on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 7:56pm.
has-been celebrity. Living on residuals and investments. He would not be bothered by 50 dollar a gallon gas. Shuffle back off to obscurity until you croak, Ted.
Ted Danson regularly shows up
Submitted by Smartypants on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 7:58pm.
Ted Danson regularly shows up at a battle of wits unarmed.
Danson
Submitted by Bronco46 on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 8:01pm.
These kinds of people have no recollection of what it's like to worry about the price of any of the day to day things in life; like the price of gas, electricity, or the costs of most things they buy going up because of increased shipping costs. That's way these guys don't care about income taxes going up; they already have wealth so they don't care about year to year income taxes. These hollywood types don't speak for the average American anymore.