Keep laughing Thomas. But I hear your laugh as a maniacal laugh in the wilderness of environmentalists with no fucking clue on how to reach their fellow citizens besides beating them over the head with their own bad behavior. It didn't work in high school, and it sure won't work to prevent another Gulf War for oil. In fact, with the political climate as charged as it is, I'd say the ability for this commercial to result in the same sort of backlash as we saw against the Wellstone campaign and the Democrats in Minnesota for Rick Kahn's speech.

It is stunts like this that can sink the current anti-war movement, just as it is gaining it's momentum. An anti-war movement full of new people who want and need to be educated on these problems that they know they are contributing to with their consumer behaviors. But they aren't going to quit it all cold turkey, now are they? And if you come down holier than thou on them like a ton of bricks, what do you suppose the result of that will be?

If the purpose of this commercial is to whip up anti-war support, it will fail miserably at it. If it's purpose is to educate the public, it also fails miserably. Why? Because if you aren't currently driving a gas hog, you know a lot of people who are, and you don't appreciate the fact that holier-than-thou environmentalists are wagging their fingers at you, telling you you are bad, bad Americans for driving your SUV. That is just pandering to patriotic jingoism.