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Toyota car commercial: What would it be like...if the air were cleaner?

Rashaka: I'd stop wishing I still lived in Northern California every time I looked at the horizon.

Toyota car commercial: Would the grass... be greener?

Rashaka: NO YOU STUPID FUCKS IT WOULDN'T. CARBON FUCKING DIOXIDE MAKES THE GRASS GREENER. I WEEP FOR YOUR BRAINS. PHOTOSYNTHESIS IS LIKE SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE HOUR. TWELVE-YEAR-OLDS KNOW MORE THAN YOU, AND YOU BUILD CARS.

Rashaka: p.s. go call your mothers and apologize to them for being stupid on television.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I used to mute commercials, but we don't have a tv remote control where I'm living now. Kinda sucky.

I don't really see the point in buying an SUV for the sake of owning one... I think it's a pointless waste of money. I don't have a problem with people buying it for a purpose, but I expect it to be a practical one. My parents bought a Yukon because we own a trailorable boat and we need something to pull it with-- frankly the Yukon was a lot better than the horrible old van we were using before, smog-wise. But I count that as practical use... not just because "it keeps my family safer". That's an illusion of safety I think, in an overall sense. For myself, I'm a poor college student, but even if I could afford one, I wouldn't buy an SUV or a pick-up right now. Cause it'd serve absolutely no purpose and not be worth the money. Not to mention pollution.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And of course it makes sense in some instances – for boats, for some businesses - but as Dave Barry pointed out, many people routinely by enormous SUVs that are never hauling anything bigger than a bagel. The people interviewed in my paper all got their SUVs to transport kids. And the crazy part? Our old 1987 Grand Caravan – which my dad sold, but which may still be on the road – got better gas mileage than half the SUVs being sold today, because it was classified as a car, not a "light truck". Over 20mpg, at least. It's not that the car companies can't make SUVs more efficient, it's that they don't want to. And buyers haven't put any pressure on them to, until now. Which is why the vapid, "Oh, my kids are safer" reasoning, which is barely true and ignores everybody else's kids, makes me batty.