Y2Kyoto: The Green Police (Bumped)

And you thought the Gestapo was infringing on human rights! Give it time, give it time man!

What kind of an ugly animal is sniffing the tire on the tractor unit??

Shades of utopia to come.

I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't let me alone.
They don't get paid or take vacations, or let me alone.
They spy on me, I try to hide, they won't let me alone.
They persecute me, they're the judge and jury all in one.

The Green police, they live inside of my head.
(Live inside of my head.)
The Green police, they come to me in my bed.
(Come to me in my bed.)
The Green police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.

My apologies to Cheap Trick!

When I saw this I was immediately enraged.

In San Francisco, the "Green Police" are already out in force. We have mandatory recycling and they plan to search people's garbage cans to ensure they have sorted trash properly.

Torches and pitchforks, I say!

Joe, it was an armadillo

The Gestapo were the original "Green Police". Just ask Anne Frank.

Funny and clever. It certainly has people talking, which is maybe the point of the ad.

But will it sell cars? I dunno.

There are more vehicles than licensed drivers in the USA, info obtained from multiple sources

So, I think the cash for clunkers things was kinda about the environment, but also about trying to pump artificial demand into the economy by removing vehicles from the road.

Long term, I ain't buying any automotive stock, but for sure I'll buy a new car in a while, likely a Ford.

Joe Citizen
[......What kind of an ugly animal is sniffing the tire on the tractor unit??]
john brooks
[......Joe, it was an armadillo]

Anteater...dude!
Armadillos are armoured/segmented.

RESIST THE NEW WORLD ORDER

sasquatch, you definitely know your armour. Hmm, experience maybe

I think all the Auto Manufactures are saying something to the EPA..... It’s a warning shot that they can use advertising to demonize the greens.... I am waiting for the Ford F350 chase scene with the California Communists in their electric Clown Cars...

I found this ad pleasing. Most of the ad time was devoted to a very humorous expose of the madness of the green movement, with very little time actually devoted to the car itself.

You know what they say, when a movement is ridiculed it's a sign the end is near.

So what I took from this add is that the green movement's time is nearly up, and I hope I am right.

TJ probably has it right. There's the lunatic fringe that might not go out without a bang, but such is life.

TJ has the best easy going view of this.

I feel sorry for POWinCA who said..

''When I saw this I was immediately enraged. ''

This didn't bother me at all. Quite a production. Entertaining in a satirical sort of way.

The new 7% tax on every bite you take out or eat in at restaurants is worth getting STEAMED about.

That's 7% on top of 5% you already pay for restaurant and coffee shop food.

I already pointed out how the BC government slapped new recycle fees on hundred of items.

Six dollar$ on my new printer. Wha?

Now this TAX GRAB!

Thousands of restaurants could go down the drain. So please do your part. Sign the petition. Do some good.

NoMealTax.Ca and bite back hard.

Also, Bill Vanderzalm, who was premier of BC during Expo '86 is organizing a people's anti-HST tax petition closing on July 5th.

Count on me Bill! Gordon Campbell has gone TAX nuts! Scared to death that the olympics deficit will bankrupt BC.

That sure is one fine looking anteater.

I want to know: who's gonna clean up all the illegally dumped trash alongside roads and in the bush?
A friend tells me that he's unable to dispose of plaster and lath rubble, the dump attendee informed him that it "might contain asbestos"!
Asshats, plaster is sand, lime, and portland cement. Period. Oh, and in the good old days maybe some horsehair.
And if it did contain asbestos? It's being buried under tons of garbage followed by huge amounts of soil; who gives a crap if there's some asbestos in the garbage!

The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism.

We just need to combine the ad where the woman opens with a FA M-16 on the armed intruder and this one.

Audi makes the A8, have you seen the "Transporter" movies? It is a great car whose carburetor looks like a toilet flushing (its a metaphor and an analogy) Then they make the Lamborghini, which makes Al Gore's houseboat look like Ed Begley's bicycle when it comes to green (OK, I exaggerate again for effect)

Here is a comment thread from some greenies who were upset by the whole thing.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/02/07/the-green-police-audi-super-bowl-commercial/

You should go have some fun with them if you are sick of preaching to the choir.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=greenpolice&annotation_id=annotation_782592&feature=iv#p/f/3/TYxvtDMB1zk

The above was pretty funny too. The ad seems to have really upset a lot of people. One notable trend across the intertubes is that UK posters seem to feel like they live in this world already.

One thing is for sure. These guys know how vulnerable they are to ridicule now.

"The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism." Paul that is exactly the way I saw it as well. If Audi had meant this commercial to be a mockery of the green movement they would not have built a "supposedly" environmentally friendly vehicle. I wonder if now they are having second thoughts.

I am picking a new sport coupe in the spring and was looking hard at a couple Audi's.

After seeing that nause on Sunday, I dropped by the dealership on the way home yesterday and told them there was not a chance in hell.

Now it's only a toss up between Nissan, Ford and Hyundai.

I wish I could say this is a complete satire.
the truth is I figure its the future unless we stop it.
The World is now run by miscreants, fools, traitors & barbarians. All backed with Busybodies with their own agenda.
JMO

Brilliant! The whole world is chattering about it.
Though the Doritos commercial of the little boy slapping the boyfriend was my fave, again another commentary that went over people's heads.

I always liked that Cheap Trick song.

After that setup, Audi should be ... ashamed.

Except for the wimp ending, it was a great commercial! Everyone should see it and start to push back.

Andy the Anteater for President! or just maybe Cuomo's Job as NYAG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YA03v8yRps

I love anteaters, because I hate ants.

See, Pachy/UN/IPCC is error-prone; just "errors"; it's not intentional AGW Fraud.

"The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."
...-

"IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson.

The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.” In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times, in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must tackle its blunders.

Watson’s comments come on the heels of another glaring embarrassment to come out of the IPCC, this time a claim that global warming could cut crop production in north Africa by up to 50% by 2020. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change,” Watson stated. “I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report.”

... Apart from his post as past IPCC chair, Watson is also the UK’s highest level environmental scientist, as Chief Scientist at the UK’s environment ministry. Prior to his current position, which he assumed in 2007, Watson was Chair of Environmental Science and Science Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, the same university caught up in the Climategate scandal.

Watson’s new-found scepticism of the science being produced by the IPCC represents an ironic reversal. In 2002, he remarked that "The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."

(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447415/posts

(Comment borrowed from BrianMChampion YouTube)
They could just call them the Grüne Staatspolizei -- or "Grüstapo" for short

Lizzie May is using it as green porn and finding much pleasure can be had.

Brilliant ad! Like any great advertising it captures an unspoken theme running in society and done ideally with humour. This ad fits in with the Apple ad from 1984, fear of overbearing government but they deal with it different ways.

Does it endorse green o phillia, no...but it offers an everyman way out or a pass on the eco-blocade (love the phrase). The examples are all people getting caught for doing regular things. The message of the ad is that the Audi offers you a way to do your part while still having a "real car", notice the engine sound and fast acceleration at the end to an open road.

Of course the greenies are fgoing to be upset, the real Green Police (the humour is built in self protection for the ad) dont like cars period...which is what this ad is targetted at, people who want "a pass".

Love the ad, major success. Greenies should be despondent over the fact that this is how they are viewed.

I think the "Green Police" ad was priceless, but then again I do not partake in the drinking of the Koolade. Anyone with a clue will also realize that, to a certain extent, this is happening already. I just think that the eco-greenies found it striking too close to home.

Irony is having to change the announcement of a Federal Global Warming Committee due to a snow storm.

Paul, Warren:

Your insularity is showing. Audi didn't design that car for the benefit of greens; they designed it to be a highly fuel efficient diesel chiefly for the European market where diesel is less highly taxed than gasoline, but still taxed 3-4 times what we pay in Canada. Diesel, in Germany, is about 77 English pence per litre; unleaded is about 90. (Note: since the pound is about $2 Cdn, that means German fuel prices are about double what they are in Canada.) The fact that fuel efficiency is accompanied by fewer emissions is a bonus. The Tdi uses about 13.2 l/100 km (city), the gas powered 3.6 litre uses about 14.5 l/100 km of premium unleaded, which is even more expensive than regular. Together, this means you'll save about 25% on fuel costs with the Tdi compared to the gas version.

Joe Sixpack isn't going to buy an Audi, so he doesn't care one way or the other. This ad is clearly targeted to Americans with a) money, and b) enviro-guilt. There's no shortage of those, and they're probably of an age where they were in university smoking pot with Cheap Trick blaring from their stereos thirty years ago. It's funny and it's effective. Just because you're not in the intended audience doesn't mean you can't laugh at the joke.

Bernaysian visual pre-conditioning of the eco-fascist police state ALL governments idolize.It's not the eco sense of Kyoto or AGW that has bureauvrats creaminh their panty hose, it's the control regime.

Repetitive commercial predictive programming is a powerful tool for acclimatizing the lemmings to incremental police abuse. Think about how much TV you see where cops are abusive with citizens - ignoring rights to assembly, mobility or to nor be harrassed - screaming orders at them, ordering them around like livestock, all geared up in black battle dress.

In another era not so long ago, abusive police behaving in such an abusive manner enforcing such pointless regulatory tyranny would have been a risky business. But these days politicians know they can routinely abuse the citizenry by slowly expanding the quasi police state without the slightest wimper from the toothless civil rights institutions.

I could laugh at the joke if it wasn't so real. As far as being effective, I suppose that depends on who it affects. It sure scared the hell out of me.

Kevin B:

the Audi diesel and all the other diesels in the Eu are built specifically FOR the green police. Cars in the Eu are taxed heavily based on how much CO2 they produce (not how much they pollute). Go check out a british Audi site (or any other manufacturers site) they have the CO2 emissions number displayed about as much as the Canadian site displays a car's fuel economy number.

As I said on a previous thread, this was a very very bad idea on Audi's part.

Oh BTW T in V:

Audis haven't had Carbs since at least the mid seventies. And converting even one A8 to run using one would be just about impossible.

Great add-- Don Drapper (8:26)has it right and
I'm having 'Cherry Bomb' mufflers installed on my Audi today.. :)

Cheap Trick

heh

Fitting.......

Park one of these in the driveway and keep the blue box nice and full and your covered, sheesh is this what we are coming too?

This ad is a compliation of a bunch of other ads. My favourite is the one where the Green Cop busts the real cops....the look on their faces is priceless and captures it all, bemused disgust.

I think the reaction to this might wake up many, which is that the movement jumped the shark, is now the subject of derision. That doesnt mean dont want to help, they just dont want to be hectored and lectured. Greens are now seen as the "no fun nannies".....LOL, about time. Lets get back to being reasonable and practical about all of this....I think this ad is reflective of a bigger issue.

Reading the reaction though is funny. The greenies are now saying its all about angry white men, tea party (using the tea bagger epithet) and the ultimate sneer...middle class. If they refuse to listen they deserve the next phase, which is anger and ultimately irrelevance. They blew they their time in the spotlight.....fittingly they will be sorted, seperated and put in a compost.

this ad will lose its humour with time as each phase becomes true.

in Calgary Bronco Dave and Bylaw Bill Bruce already create about a law a week.
soon everything in Calgary will be ala Swiss.
verboten oder vorgeschrieben

You're right an ant-eater, I see the fur now!

The not-so-funny-part sounds oh, so like KGB manual for suppressing counter-revolution.

That's an interesting list of conspiracies they'd like to ban. I wonder why 9/11 Truthers didn't make the list?

Speaking of those blue bins bob, (blue bin bob?) yeah, they are an eye sore now driving down back lanes (if you have them in your neighbourhood).

People don't know how to pull them back to their fence line, but leave them sticking out in the lane where the truck dumped it. Becoming an obstacle course/shalom now, feel like playing pin ball with them with the truck.

These bastards will only eventually succeed in drawing the guns out of Conservative's closets. And I am not talking confiscation.

Thank god for the second amendment. It may be the only thing that ultimately stops these monsters.

It's happened before.

TG, I feel sorry that you don't actually have mandatory recycling and enforcement officers giving you tickets at your house for not properly sorting your trash, including compost.

The "Green Police" may be witty satire for most of you. In San Francisco it's a frightening reality.

We just had the federal government declare exhalation a "pollutant." They've taken over the world's largest auto manufacturer and are forcing it to produce hybrid cars. We've got billions of government dollars pushing into giant fans, solar panels, and electric cars. What more evidence do you need that the Green Fascists are in power? Kristalnacht with broken SUV windows?

dp - re 9/11 truthers - my thoughts exactly. Maybe the government actually was behind it then - wait - no - retract that - I don't want to get taxed. Idiots. Total idiots.

Harvard law professor as a czar? Surprised??

The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism.
Posted by: Paul at February 9, 2010 3:30 AM

Exactly my sentiments Paul. Most corporations are taking the lunatic CSR (corporate social responsibility) to heart, taking the easy route, kowtowing to the anti-industrial marxist lunatics who believe that profits are things you 'take out of the community' and for which you must make amends by 'giving back' to the community.

There's something profoundly creepy -- and not at all funny -- when a company advertises its COMPLIANCE with green fascism, for that is what they are going here, and nothing more.