If only this commercial was a spoof on reality.
Washington DC has a tax on plastic grocery bags. Many, many , many other places have similar laws
In San Francisco people are required by law to compost waste and recycle. Offenders are subject to fines.
The city by the bay also has a ban on plastic water bottles. Other countries are reaching this madness level as well.
Incandescent light bulbs will be phased out in the US starting in 2012. In Europe they already have banned these and are offering money to people to snitch on stores which sell the outlawed bulbs. You will be stuck with those crappy compact flourescent blubs (CFLs) in the near future.
And in this madness, Audi is selling its “green” car. Somehow I am not comforted. And I feel a lot less free.
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If the envirofascists get this wish, I predict
Xasteius (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 11:33PM EST (link)a gun behind every compost pile.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
Is that an anteater?
Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 12:25AM EST (link)No doubt a fan of BC crafted that ad.
I was amazed when it became an Audi ad. It was more effected in pointing out the craziness of the Greenies and the Green laws.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
As anti-Green, it's a riot.
Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 12:29AM EST (link)And the fact that it’s pushing a Diesel car is priceless, too.
I wonder if Audi will figure out they were used. (I’m too old to write pwned.)
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
The whole room laughed at the cop getting cited for the styrofoam cup
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 1:03AM EST (link)at the end.
Takeaway ==> Ridiculous.
Scratch Audi off the list of the candidates for my next new car purchase.
Support private American industry--
Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 1:05AM EST (link)buy a Ford.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
I've purchased five new GMs in my lifetime
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 1:08AM EST (link)That was from General Motors before it became Govt Motors. No way will I buy a car from GM (or Chrysler) ever again.
On second thought, perhaps Audi was trying to mock
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:29AM EST (link)the green movement?
Obviously, they were trying to sell cars by removing an objection to the purchase of the diesel. One way, by saying it’s clean. And maybe backhandedly by mocking the green movement.
Thoughts?
Tinfoil hat time....
qixlqatl (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 1:25AM EST (link)Maybe the major manufacturers are figuring out that the “green” movement isn’t in their best interests, and are using their own “green” ads as a subtle propaganda tool against it….
lol, Fnord
“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
And as soon as they force us all to get rid of our evil
marshmom (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:02AM EST (link)incandescent bulbs and use CFL’s, they’ll discover that we’ve all subjected ourselves to mercury poisoning in our water, soil, etc. all in the name of saving the environment. The left really doesn’t think about the consequences of anything before they do it. I hate those stupid CFL’s. Where I live, we have NO recycling facilities for them so we have to throw them in the garbage when they’re done. What will this eventually do putting all that mercury in the environment?? Hmm Al Gore?????????????? Nancy? Anyone???
Some congressman ought to sponsor a ban on mercury-based light bulbs
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:40AM EST (link)When the riduculousness of the incandescent ban becomes apparent, I’m betting the lawmakers will do the right thing and repeal the incandescent ban.
CFL bulbs are just another attempt by the gov't
kyoufuu (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:45AM EST (link)To force us to help the planet at our own expense. Have you ever read the recommended cleanup guide should a CFL break? Let’s just say it’s not fun, especially if it breaks in the dead of winter.
It’s all an attempt to make more money, really. CFL’s are more expensive than incandescents, and the primary producer is a certain company that has a lot of lobbying power with the government.
http://atouchofreason.blogspot.com/2008/06/going-green-to-be-making-green-with.html
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison
“I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
I loved when they were looking through the guy's trash...
kyoufuu (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:54AM EST (link)found a battery, and then hada dozen cops storm the house.
That commercial both made me laugh and gave me chills, because it’s so true of our future dystopia.
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison
“I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
The "Clean enough to not feel guilty and
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:30PM EST (link)gets you a pass with the douchebags” ad.
I have to admit, I didn’t get where Audi was coming from at first.
Neither did Time’s
JAMES PONIEWOZIK
I actually had a similar thought...
randy streu (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:35PM EST (link)in fact, I’m envisioning a parody ad, where a humvee busts through the pansy barricade of electric cars and drives off into the free land. Then a caption that says “Hummer. Suck it, Greenies.” (yeah, I’m right on the edge of tolerated with that, I know)
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