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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

[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.