The Fascist Green Police Super Bowl Ad Is Stuck In My Head
by Jim LakelyAnd that’s the point, I guess. Watch this ad for a “clean diesel” car by Audi, and good luck getting this slightly modified version of the Cheap Trick classic “Dream Police” out of your head. I couldn’t get it out with a lobotomy. It’s been playing off and on in my brain since it first aired during the Super Bowl.
But beyond the diddy, I also can’t get the vision of a fascist “green” future out of my head — even if it’s portrayed with a heavy dollop of of “Reno: 911“-style cop-show parody. Good comedy has to have a grain of truth in it to work, and this spot has plenty. It’s not just a peek at a ridiculous future, but a look at our “be green or else” present. An overreaction? Tell that to the chief of America’s Green Police, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who Tweeted:
“Ok .. That ‘green police’ Audi commercial hits home..”
And hits home hard. San Francisco, which proudly considers itself the greenest city in America, has mandated composting for all residents and businesses. Failure to comply results in an escalating scale of fines. No word on whether Newsom was proud or embarrassed to see his Green Police state in San Francisco reflected in an ad.
There’s no doubt the ad is funny, but one is left to wonder what Audi’s purpose was? I’m still a bit flummoxed. Did Audi intend to produce a screed against the Green Police as a way to appeal to those who are fed up with years of constant eco-scolding? One would think not, since the “punch line” is that if you own a clean-diesel Audi, you get to drive right through a green checkpoint. But the other 40 seconds of the one-minute spot dovetail nicely with the growing fatigue and skepticism the public feels about the “green” initiatives of government — especially in the wake of the ClimateGate scandals.
Or did Audi believe the public is in lock-step with the green agenda, and figured people would get a laugh out of a satire of paranoid, know-nothing skeptics, and actually want a car that keeps you on the “good side” of environmental policy. If so, it strikes me as a horrible miscalculation to assume the country is full of people who think like Al Gore and Barbara Boxer. The German carmaker, too, seems to be a bit confused about its own ad.
The Green Police are a humorous group of individuals that have joined forces in an effort to collectively help guide consumers to make the right decision when it comes to the environment. They’re not here to judge, merely to guide these decisions.
Ha ha ha! Just “guide” us, eh? By slamming a dude’s head into the checkout line for choosing plastic? Not here to judge? Tell that to the folks scrambling away from their too-hot hot tub. (I know. It’s only a commercial, and a funny one to boot. Still, to pretend there’s no judgment being made on people’s freedom to make decisions about how they may go about their ordinary lives is ridiculous.)
There’s been a good bit of commentary about this ad in the blogosphere. Ben Boychuk at Infinite Monkeys thought the ad was “cleverly written and produced (the anteater was a cute touch)… and utterly horrifying.”
Two bits in particular really bothered me: The part where the Green Police put some hapless homeowner in the back of a squad car as a news reporter explains the perp was caught using incandescent lights; and the Cops-like scene where the bewildered couple is rousted for setting their hot tub’s thermostat too high.
Ben notes how Audi explains there are “numerous real Green Police units globally that are furthering green practices and environmental issues.”
For example, Israel’s main arm of the Ministry of Environmental Protection in the area of enforcement and deterrence is called; you guess it, the Green Police. New York has officers within the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation that are fondly called the “Green Police”. The Green Police is also the popular name for Vietnam’s Environmental Police Department and the UK has a group who dresses in green as part of the Environment Agency’s squad to monitor excessive CO2 emissions.
Wait. What? A Western carmaker is holding up Communist Vietnam as a good example to follow? And we’re supposed to admire the fact that “free” countries like Israel and Great Britain send bureaucrats around to monitor the emissions of its citizens? I don’t care if they wear cute green outfits, that’s a bit creepy and fascist to me. Such agencies don’t merely “further green practices and environmental issues.” They enforce government-desired life practices through a knock on the door. Big difference.
But, I suppose the joke’s on me. Steve Hayward at No Left Turns sees this as a victory for those of us who’ve had enough of the enviro-scolds:
What’s more over than Mark Sanford’s marriage or John Edwards’ reputation? The environmental movement, that’s what. … Is [the ad] mocking environmentalism? Um. . . yeah. Your moral authority is pretty thin when a major advertiser finds it safe to take this approach. Think anyone would ever try something like this about the civil rights movement? Or the feminist movement?
Point taken. And it should be a source of comfort that those who believe in bossing us around in the name of “saving the planet” (which doesn’t need saved) are a little worried about the mixed messages in this ad. But I live in a state, California, which recently:
- proposed fining and jailing people for the crime of driving with under-inflated tires;
- considered a bill banning cars with black paint from being sold (because black cars trap more heat in the summer and require more use of the air conditioner to make the driver comfortable);
- banned wood-burning fireplaces in new home construction (and restricts it in “grandfathered-in” homes from time to time by bureaucratic fiat); and
- outlawed 25 percent of flat-screen TVs on the market because a panel of bureaucrats say they use too much power;
I could list more examples, including a bit from the Audi ad that is actually true: Incandescent light bulbs will be contraband in the United States starting in 2012. Sure looks like the Green Police are real to me. Happily, Audi has now armed those who would oppose the reordering of society through environmental mandates with a nice bit of video to splice into footage of Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Henry Waxman, Barack Obama and others ordering us how to live our lives.
Get crackin’, YouTube fiends! A golden propaganda moment awaits.
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These thugs must be stopped!
The scary thing is that it is supposed to be a gross exaggeration,but once people get power, they want more of it, look at Iran's morality police, or the Morality Police in Saudi Arabia
A bit early to be declaring the end of environmentalism. As long as there are people who feel that they have a right to pollute, there will be push back. I don't see how this ad helps Audi.
I'm disgusted! I have to say i did not contribute to the Superbowl ads, I did not watch them. If we would stop giving them a venue they will stop. Amen, the planet does not need to be saved by the lesser man in the universe. Let God take care of it and man can go back to obeying the commandments, like keeping the Sabath day holy.
obvious troll…is concerned…
Will Audi become the next Subaru, embraced by the left? Not so sure … even my liberal neighbor was shocked by the commercial.
Soon people will be forced to fart into a test tube for a methane audit and be taxed accordingly.
I wonder if the Obama "Green Police" are out in DC telling people to turn down their thermostats?
Robin Zander rocks!
Green cops !!!! this is how there doing it in the State of Washington — check it out in your state and know how there going to do it to you .
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/
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I've got two new endings to that commercial.
First, Dennis Leary in a '67 Camero busts through the checkpoint, a big gorgeous cheeseburger in one hand, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, and flips off the enviro-fascists as he laughs and barrels down the highway.
Second, the smug Audi driver gets a rocket launcher right into the side of his Nazi-approved vehicle. Charlie Sheen stands up from the hillside and yells: "Wolverines!"
Neither ending sells an Audi, but then again, neither did the original.
Funny how in that "Green Police" commercial they are only going after consumers, not producers…
First they came for the smokers . . .
I thought it was the best Superbowl ad.
Big brother out of control. It should be a wake up call to the fight against tyranny.
Looks like you're gonna have to start using rechargable batteries in your Obama d!ildo from now on…You poor thing.
Rick Nelson of Cheap Trick has also done work for Michael Moore.
What gets me is they've taken a pretty good song and ruined it — Cheap Trick sold out!
Maybe sophomoric comedy is the way to start ridding our society of this destructive Greening of America onslaught.
But I'm sorry, I must admit that I find it somewhat uneasy the legitimization of the Letterman / SNL / Ron Stewart, etc. having so much influence in shaping contemporary society.
I made a legitimate observation and all you've got is some ugly sex thing…. pretty sad.
the irony of a green police must be, we are supposed to be a free society, and should be able to make our own decisions for our own reasons. and while it is not a bad idea to conserve if you can, but sometimes conservation does not work. for example, a huge ford pickup truck does not get the fuel economy of a toyota prius, but a prius would have a hard time pulling a trailer full of feed for cattle, or moving horses around to another location (i think the horse would easier pull the prius, than the other way around). i travel in the local area alot, and for me to bring water bottles is better plan, than to try and remember to bring back a reusable bottle, since i may not go back to the same place twice, or it may get ruined by paint or oil. but a green police does not take my plans into consideration.
Don't you SEE???? By 1999 we will be out of fossil fuel!!!!! We we each have only one square foot of earth to stand on???? We will all be frozen from the next ice age!!!!! Oh. That last part may have come true.
also a green police assumes you don't pay more for bad decisions. take a hummer, the big ones. one of my busybody neighbors was complaining about another one. they purchased a hummer, and the busybody proclaimed they should pay a gas guzzler tax. i asked her how many miles to a gallon she thought the hummer was compared to her car. she told my car gets real good milage. i then asked her if she knew how much taxes were on gas, she didn't know. when i told her, she was amazed, then i put two and two together for her. if the hummer uses more gas, then they pay more taxes, don't they? then i asked her if it was her business what others choose to drive? then i realized, green zealots never consider other people's plans, or needs.
At first, when I saw this commercial, I thought, "Oh no. Here we go". But then I thought, "That was funny as heck". So, I watched it again and still found it "just a funny ad making fun of the Enviro-nutbags". I also think it is a funny way to say to folks, "This is where we are headed if you don't pull your heads out of your keesters".
The bottom line is that, in my opinion, the enviro-nutbags are a danger to our country. Don't get me wrong. We all should be good stewards to our environment. We should not, however, take the progressive route by shooting ourselves in the foot in the process.
This very country, and yes, the world, would be knocked halfway back into the stone age without Petroleum-based products. Plastics are in everything we use today and have been the key reasons for positive progress in just about every area – even some of the parts in those fancy windmills the current administration wants all of us to put up in our back yards. From more affordable homes, cars and everyday products, to drug delivery systems… Oh, yes, and to the plastic bottles used to deliver clean water to places struck by catastrophe, such as Haiti.
If this administration wanted to be constructively proactive where environmental issues are concerned, instead of dolling out billions for new windmills, they should divert that money to improving reclaiming and reprocessing of recycled plastics. As someone who has worked in the plastics industry for 17 years, I can tell you that recycling technology is NOT efficient. There are only so many park benches and polymer boards you can make with recycled HDPE milk jugs and PET liter soft drink bottles. Put more funding into figuring out how to use more regrind resin in different products, so that less virgin resins will need to be used.
Too bad Audi isn't worthy of such a fine commercial…
Instilling a guilt trip in our children is the goal of this whole green movement (love the word movement for this). It's all a buncha hoooey. Why is it that Liberals are more concerned with a can tossed into a land fill that has a 200 year lifespan to break down but doesn't give a rip about the debt that will not break down and keeps growing for probably the same time span?
I think we all know the answer to that…
DTOM!
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We can flap our jaws all day but Obama has created a new climate change agency by fiat the day after the ad aired.
Guess I better start stockpiling incandescent light bulbs, because I HATE the fluorescent ones! The Audi commercial really bothered me, because I already know liberals who have appointed themselves the "Green Police" and who truly believe that we SHOULD have a sort of police force out there to force people to make "environmentally sound" choices. They look at this ad and see the future and applaud. I look at this ad, see the future and am appalled.
Bulletin: The EPA has just banned all 'pull my finger' jokes.
The legitimacy of your observation is to be judged by the eye of the beholder. And besides, you're not worth a intelligible response. I'm just playing your game pal…Did I strike a nerve? Thanks for playing…
Just looks like standard "Law Enforcement" to me. What are you worried about? I've been saying the stench is overwhelming for years. But a whole lotta people still keep going for that fresh-brewed "Law Enforcement" tea.
If there is a will, there is always a way.
If "smart meters" are the rule of the day, I suspect we will see some "smart inventors" rigging a fan blowing over a tub of ice toward the thermostat to fake out the real temperature. Necessity is the mother of invention!
Meh. Not funny. More insulting. And goes even further to my desire to get a gas guzzling SUV or pick-up when I graduate. Then I too wouldn't have to worry about eco-roadblocks as I would just drive off the road. My way's more fun.
Mickey,….did not the first cave man who started the first fire start to "pollute"
"Push back" like "pollute", are the things the evolution of man is made of .
As far as all the grief you get every time you post,…
You did kinda bring it upon yourself, don't ya think?
Fascinating: It seems that inadvertently, Audi has done damage to the Green Movement that it purports to support. The ad itself (minus the Audi car piece) is actually brilliant.
i was almost on that frame of mind. i was wondering since methane is a real greenhouse gas, are they going to make people with gastrointestinal issues wear personal methane destruction units? so everytime there is a release, it is ignited so the methane never gets into the atmoshere. then we can tell all the pull my finger jokes, and not worry about poor children suffering from global warming.
Bingo! I looked at my wife during the Super Bowl when this commercial came on, and we both cringed at the same time. It smacks of "Big Brotherism" big time, so it does portray a the possibility of a scarey future. I guess I'm going to have to diaper my Collies when I take them for a walk now. God forbid one of them should pass gas….unless I can harness it to heat my home…..HEY……!!!!!
Lots of liberals were…their deepest desires were exposed…if we know about them, we can stop them.
The same Obama who keeps the Oval Office hot enough to grow orchids?
Yeah, I'm not sure how Steve Martin could have gotten an incandescent bulb after Congress outlawed them already.
"Second, the smug Audi driver gets a rocket launcher right into the side of his Nazi-approved vehicle. Charlie Sheen stands up from the hillside and yells: "Wolverines!" "
Awesome.
Could we add in a shot of those green police segways laying on the side of the road, smoldering, with "Wolverines" spray-painted on the side?
Almost all environmental laws have the end purpose of further future laws. More and more laws until you have a Totalitarian Government. Kind of like Obama and Pelosi want to bring on America.
The commercial was funny and it does show how Liberals don't know when to quit on these types of things. Figures don't lie but liars do figure, (see Al Whore). There will always be the Global Warming scams to tax America, the problem is our own President is complicit in the scam
Products? That sounds…capitalist. *mock horror*
More right than you know the original Nazi green police were the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police in English) that wore green uniforms and was a under the command of the SS. Count on a German company to bring this back up.
You hit the nail on the head.
I saw this ad just once the day after the Super Bowl. It was funny, but more scary since there really are folks out here determined to do all that and worse…basically an open-ended push to control anything and everything they don't like.
Nanny Newsom is just a bit player pushed to the forefront by rabid backers who live, and interfere among us.
Oh my! You are right! Sorry! I should have referred to them as "items used every day, by everyone, including hypocrit democrats". Mea Culpa.
Interesting that they mention Vietnam's environmental police. In fact, Vietnam is probably one of the least environmentally engaged nations in the region, and the government sponsored bauxite mines are causing serious damage to the region they are located. I'm just back from 2 weeks there, and found it to be less involved in "green" than the United States.
VW/Audi ads usually attemp to poke fun at the obvious, going back to the 90's. This one is the funniest in years though. They need to appeal to buyers on both sides of the issue.
Great ad. Audi buys a spot, and gets tons of free publicity. Brilliant. The other ad I liked was 50-yr-old Brett Favre pondering retirement!
Well, we have you on record now and it's just a matter of time before you reveal yourself again. Only time will tell if you are truly a pervert, or just an angry blogger looking to lash out at someone you have a political disagreement with… Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I suspect the later.
I can feel it coming…
AAAHHH… Too late! I have been doing my part to warm my frozen world by eating lots and lots of broccoli, onions, garlic (good for the heart). If I wasn't allergic to barley, I would be drinking more beer, too.
Who's we? You got an Obama in your pocket?
Hope you put fresh batteries in it…!
Git er dun!
That had better be an environmentally acceptable, reusable diaper! LOL
You know mika, you may be one of the most miserable creatures I have ever encountered. "people who feel that they have a right to pollute"??? You poor, poor tortured soul. Never a positive point of view. Never a celebration of life. Only negativity and venom. So I dedicate this quote to you, our own little "Double, double toil and trouble" troll:
1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
"Instilling a guilt trip in our children is the goal of this whole green movement."
So true. We can all have a good laugh at the Green Police in the Audi Spot, but the way the green movement targets kids is despicable. I have a friend whose 12 year old daughter nearly broke down in tears in the grocery store aisle because Mom was buying water in plastic bottles. I've been told by a 6 year old to never let the water run while I'm brushing my teeth because "we have to share water with lots of the earth's creatures." Then her 5 year old friend told me that she hopes that there are still polar bears on earth when she grows up, because right now "they're being killed by global warming."
At this rate, it will be our kids riding those segways, wearing those green uniforms and turning us in for using 60 watt incandescent light bulbs.
Same way with Thailand. Hope you were better able to recover your respiratory health than I was while in Bangkok.
sorry, but why does the government need to do this. if you think there is a better way, or better uses, that is what capitalism does. you figure this out, go get some venture capital, and become the next billionaire. why must you assume the government has the ideas. reagan used to say if government is the answer, it must be a dumb question. just like the sham on stem cells. if stem cells were so big, why must the government figure it out, when the private sector has more proven abilities in innovation. trains, cars, and airplanes were not invented by the government, niether was the ipod, or the pet rock. but the idea for the pet rock might have come from the movement of government workers, just sitting there like rocks.
When in northeastern China last year I saw dozens of Audi's in a week's time. All were black. They have a plant there. It's an A5 with a different badge.
Audi goes where the business is.
The ads do talk out of both ends, though.
There’s no doubt the ad is funny, but one is left to wonder what Audi’s purpose was?
Audi's purpose was to get people to remember the ad. It seems that they've succeeded very successfully.
Audi ran a perfect 10 with this add. If I understand advertising, the idea is to keep people talking and thinking about the product. With all the commentary about this ad and Audi's vague response, they have received the equivalent of millions of dollars in free advertising.
That doesn't make the add any less disturbing, just very sucessful..
The "green police" should focus on Chicago's southside where Obama was the community organizer and other ghettos in those Lib states like Michigan. The commercial wanted to make a point that if you buy an Audi, you are helping to protect the environment but it I didn't even see the Audi because I was too engrossed in the reality of a POLICE STATE coming to your local neighborhood.
Audi missed the mark for sales, but sure brought home the Fascist point and will help us come November.
Mikatollah (interesting handle),
Using an ordinary light bulb instead of those awful CFBs is not "polluting" in the sense warranting a take over of our lives. Neither is having a hot tub at 105 degrees. Or driving my Honda CRV, which is already "California standards" compliant.
The air and water is cleaner in America than it has been in decades. When is enough enough?
Anyone else notice that all the perps are white?
Not only that, MacDaddy. They also contain mercury, and cannot simply be thrown away — and you have to call a haz-mat team if they break on your kitchen floor.
Don't worry, though. They're "green." And they're good for us. So we'll be forced to use them.
Hey, lighten up everyone! This is a chance to laugh at wackos. I notice all the analysis about this and the other Super Bowl ads is deadly serious. Have we lost our sense of (wicked) humor, or what? By the way, isn't that an aardvark sniffing the truck for environmental sins?
In Texas, storming your home because the green Nazis found a battery in you refuse would be met with a hail of gunfire. Jes' sayin'
First, we had the thought police. Now we have the green police. I see this as another weapon to use against political correctness run rampant.
I love this commercial. It emphasizes plainly and simply America's love of powerful automobiles and the open road, while belittling the nanny state and rejecting it's sissy, insipid solutions. The CEO of AUDI USA was recently quoted as saying that anyone who buys a "Chevy Volt" is an idiot and I suppose he would include a lot of the intelligentsia who buy their Prius to impress people. Besides, I drive an Audi A3 and regularly make the Autobahn run from Berlin to Munich in about four hours. And I wave at Ingolstadt every time I pass by going 200KMH.
Occasionally I'll find someone that wants to have a real conversation. As for the verbal abuse, everyone who debates the right has to put up with it. If it were going to intimidate me I would have left long ago. It amuses me when it is really creative.
But, does it make you want to BUY their product?
I've used that name since the mid 90s when I got my first AOL e-mail account and was looking for a name that didn't include numbers. It has just kind of stuck.
The key to reducing atmospheric CO2 is going to involve getting away from burning fossil fuels in our vehicles and for power production. The technology exists, we just need to find the will.
Best post of the day john… thanks.
We… you know, this blog. By the way, you know that the things you type today never go away… never. In fact, I suspect that 72 years from now this will all be entered into the public domain and made available for researchers who may have an interest in what kind of people we were… you know, grand kids and great grand kids.
I try and keep that in mind when I post.
The idea of "green police" is repulsive but as a conservative ANY technology that can reduce or LIBERATE me and my family from BIG ENERGY is welcome in my book.
Not because I buy into the AGW crap but because I buy into the idea of Independence and for me that includes INDEPENDENCE from BIG ENERGY. So bring on the wind, solar and anything else "creative" that will end the energy monopoly.
Unless I am wrong here Independence should include independence from centralized PRIVATE power as well as a centralized Federal power.
He's a rocket man …
Wait a minute… you are disgusted by ads you didn't watch?
Superbowl ads have become an American tradition. You are missing out.
So what…We don't need to go 72 years into the future to surmise you're nothing but a bitter troll…Do we?
You never offer anything constructive to any discussion, so please spare me the semantical post judgment of my words.
His master is Commissar Soros!
Maybe we should just outlaw volcanoes while we're at it eh? Tool…
Don't let ideology get in the way of doing the right thing. As a Native American you know in your heart that we are not being good stewards of the future when we pollute. We have the technology to get away from burning fossils, we just need to find the will.
I had a friend who used to call his fantasy baseball team the Dixie Hezbollah, and changed it after 911. No judgment here. Just an interesting name. Certainly memorable.
As for your CO2 point and the fact that the technology exists, we'll just have to disagree. Switching to carbon-free (or even carbon-friendly) technology on the scale and speed that the greens want to do is simply impossible without massive damage to our economy and productivity. No matter the "will." And who's "we"? China and India are not going to walk this plank, making a 100 percent "green" economy in the United States all-but irrelevant to global emissions.
you DO realize that vehicles produced today (the avg vehicle, not a 'green one') are extremely green, in and of themselves. A single car produced in 1960 produces the same greenhouse gasses as 1000 avg cars today. More greenhouse gasses are produced by naturally occuring events around the wold like volcanoes than are produced by cars in the USA. Where does it stop? CO2 is not a pollutant. You and I both exhale it, and plantlife, trees, and alot of marine life require it for their very survival, converting it to oxygen for our very survival. It's one thing to voluntarily make an improvement, but being forced to convert our energy production under force of law is inherently Un-American, and based on our Constitutional rights, is ILLEGAL.
Volcanoes produce less than one percent of the CO2 that humans add by burning fossil fuels.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15...
Good observation there Billy.
Political ideology certainly got in the way of the peace movement of the 60's.
I was on my to Canada but than I saw someone burn our flag.
Being anti war I suppose, was a good thing, but being anti American well now that's not what I had in mind
Went to Ft. Knox instead.
Ooop, sorry folks got off the subject there a tad.
Good observation there Billy.
Political ideology certainly got in the way of the peace movement of the 60's.
I was on my to Canada but than I saw someone burn our flag.
Being anti war I suppose, was a good thing, but being anti American well now that's not what I had in mind
Went to Ft. Knox instead.
Ooop, sorry folks got off the subject there a tad.
Amen wldbil! My dream has always been to build a green home…but the left has tainted my dream and possibly made it impossible to do so. I will still build that house if we have enough money left after this crook in the WH is gone.
I sold subarus, and also own one (10 yrs so far) and yes, there are alot of lefties that own them. But, you also have the STI's and WRX's that when tuned for more performance, get all of 10-15MPG. The lefties who buy subaru coveniently ignore that fact.
I believe the real debate is in who defines damage to the environment, or what damage is.
Right now there are no honest brokers just agendas.
Not surprisingly you fail to mention science.
By the way as you will recall in past blogs i predicted the severity of this winter, the animals told me…
So much for your ridicules global warming the temperatures have been coolling for the past eleven years. Do the research Mik you look foolish.
But he's special! He's running the universe! ~
hell, we used to have reusable diapers. they were called cotton diapers. Once all the hippies started popping out babies, they cried for disposable ones. Now those same people complain about the environment. what rubbish.
LED's. They use even less power than CFLs and no mercury. Unfortunately, they are not quite ready for prime time. They are still not real bright and they are expensive and hard to find. I have one in a reading light over my bed and I am trying 4 in a ceiling fan fixture. As soon as they get the price down and the brightness up, CFL's will be dinosaurs.
That is a good point and a valid political debate. The problem we have is wading through all the misinformation and deciding what actions are we going to take.
The science tells us it is real, it's caused by humans and can only be reversed by finding alternative sources of energy.
It won't happen overnight, and the technology will grow when it become economically and politically feasible. Look at the example of WWII. When we have to, we can stuff a lot of development into a short period of time.
Man created CO2 is a few percentage points of what evaporates from the oceans and other natural phenomena Mik.
Sorry – I'm not filling my light sockets with glass coils of mercury poison. They do absolutely nothing to lower the electric bill, they are less efficient, they do not last 'years' and often shatter within months, they give off a dull urine colored light, and give people migraines. They're worse than florescent light and halogen bulbs combined – AND – contain deadly mercury. Start stocking up on Edison's masterpiece my friends. Resist.
Because our lovely (not) green Governor Chris! I think its time we recall her. I read and article last night and found out that Washington state is one of the states that can do this. I say we recall her when the she increases our taxes…..
Thanks for the info Deb. I will forward it to my husband as he interfaces with DOE and other agencies in the state often in the construction of windfarms. The Eco Nazi's can be really ugly here even when there is an effort to go over and above state requirements.
"even liberals are shocked", that's because they are so stupid and have NO idea the repercussions of their policies will allow. They say it's an exaggeration but look at Europe, it's been close to this madness for years. My friend lived in Holland where they drove around looking w/binoculurs onto your home windows to see if you had a second TV that you weren't paying extra taxes for! It is coming!!
The science falls in the dishonest part
Check your volcano facts first: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15...
Cars are indeed much more efficient than they were 50 years ago. There are also lots more of them. We have the potential to produce cars that don't burn any fossil fuels and that is the direction we should take for our future.
CO2 is not toxic in the concentrations which exist in our atmosphere. But it is, by definition a pollutant. Even the right wing supreme court agreed that the EPA has the right to regulate CO2 emissions.
I could ask you to please not drive your car over the posted limit, but it is much more effective when I throw in a $200 ticket and higher insurance premiums.
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