OT Recent debates over SUVs
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reefersx2
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The new ads on T.V. There is also a link .. wont let me post but here is the text.
Script of Detroit Project SUV Ads
From www.thedetroitproject.com
Ad 1: "Talking Head/Parody"
"I helped hijack an airplane. I helped blow up a nightclub. So what if it gets 11 miles to the gallon. I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country. It makes me feel safe. I helped our enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. What if I need to go off-road? Everyone has one. I helped teach kids around the world to hate America. I like to sit up high. I sent our soldiers off to war. Everyone has one. My life, my SUV. I don't even know how many miles it gets to the gallon."
WHAT IS YOUR SUV DOING TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY? DETROIT, AMERICA NEEDS HYBRID CARS NOW.
www.thedetroitproject.com
Paid for by The Detroit Project
Ad 2: "George Head/Parody"
"This is George. This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV."
OIL MONEY SUPPORTS SOME TERRIBLE THINGS. WHAT KIND OF MILEAGE DOES YOUR SUV GET?
www.thedetroitproject.com
Paid for by The Detroit Project
Script of Detroit Project SUV Ads
From www.thedetroitproject.com
Ad 1: "Talking Head/Parody"
"I helped hijack an airplane. I helped blow up a nightclub. So what if it gets 11 miles to the gallon. I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country. It makes me feel safe. I helped our enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. What if I need to go off-road? Everyone has one. I helped teach kids around the world to hate America. I like to sit up high. I sent our soldiers off to war. Everyone has one. My life, my SUV. I don't even know how many miles it gets to the gallon."
WHAT IS YOUR SUV DOING TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY? DETROIT, AMERICA NEEDS HYBRID CARS NOW.
www.thedetroitproject.com
Paid for by The Detroit Project
Ad 2: "George Head/Parody"
"This is George. This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV."
OIL MONEY SUPPORTS SOME TERRIBLE THINGS. WHAT KIND OF MILEAGE DOES YOUR SUV GET?
www.thedetroitproject.com
Paid for by The Detroit Project
reefersx2
Member
The CNN report
LOS ANGELES - A new front opened in the U.S. ''war on terror'' on Wednesday as pundit Arianna Huffington and three Hollywood pals launched a TV ad campaign to stop Americans from driving sport utility vehicles because the gas-guzzling autos inadvertently aid the country's enemies.
In two spots scheduled to begin running on Sunday, Huffington and her friends, who call themselves The Detroit Project, try to plant the idea that driving the hot-selling mammoth vehicles is unpatriotic.
The ads, which will appear through Friday in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington, D.C., parody the government's public service campaign against drug-sponsored terrorism, and aim to kindle public demand for tougher fuel efficiency.
''The goal of the campaign is not to demonize people who drive SUVs,'' Huffington said. ''We want to point out how our driving habits at home are fueling oil money to Saudi Arabia.''
One spot features a hapless SUV driver named ''George'' pumping gas into his vehicle while an oil company executive steps into a limousine and a group of turban-wearing soldiers fire automatic rifles into the air.
''This is George,'' a child says in a sing-song voice. ''This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.''
''Oil money supports some terrible things. What kind of mileage does your SUV get?'' the ad concludes.
THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
In a series of close-ups, the second ad explores the purported consequences of buying foreign oil, juxtaposed with excuses people make for buying SUVs: ''I helped hijack an airplane.'' ''I like to sit up high.'' ''I helped blow up a nightclub.'' ''It makes me feel safe.'' ''I sent our soldiers off to war.''
''What is your SUV doing to national security?'' it asks. ''Detroit, America needs hybrid cars now.''
Affiliates of the Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC network in New York and Los Angeles have refused to air the ads because they are too controversial, Huffington said. The spots appear Sunday on network stations and for the rest of the week on cable TV news channels.
Huffington planted the seeds for The Detroit Project in her nationally syndicated column in October by fantasizing about a people's ad campaign taking the government to task for failing to pass tougher fuel efficiency standards while waging war to protect cheap oil.
Readers flooded her ''in'' basket with more than 5,000 letters by the next morning, asking where to send money for the mythical campaign. Within three weeks she had raised $200,000 to pay for a week of airtime and production of the ads.
Huffington recruited her hiking pal Laurie David, wife of ''Seinfeld'' creator Larry David, who had convinced her to swap her gas-guzzling Lincoln Navigator for a fuel-efficient Toyota Prius, and film producer Lawrence Bender and talent agent Ari Emanuel to guide the spots through production.
Although they had budgeted $50,000 to produce the spots, written by ''Got Milk?'' creator Scott Burns, most of the costs were waived when people learned about the project, Burns said.
The Detroit Project founders said plans to expand the campaign to more cities or to make new ads must await the public's response -- and their money.
''Some people will think we went too far. I personally wanted to be very confrontational,'' Bender said. ''Sept. 11 was very confrontational.''
Reut03:17 01-09-03
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LOS ANGELES - A new front opened in the U.S. ''war on terror'' on Wednesday as pundit Arianna Huffington and three Hollywood pals launched a TV ad campaign to stop Americans from driving sport utility vehicles because the gas-guzzling autos inadvertently aid the country's enemies.
In two spots scheduled to begin running on Sunday, Huffington and her friends, who call themselves The Detroit Project, try to plant the idea that driving the hot-selling mammoth vehicles is unpatriotic.
The ads, which will appear through Friday in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington, D.C., parody the government's public service campaign against drug-sponsored terrorism, and aim to kindle public demand for tougher fuel efficiency.
''The goal of the campaign is not to demonize people who drive SUVs,'' Huffington said. ''We want to point out how our driving habits at home are fueling oil money to Saudi Arabia.''
One spot features a hapless SUV driver named ''George'' pumping gas into his vehicle while an oil company executive steps into a limousine and a group of turban-wearing soldiers fire automatic rifles into the air.
''This is George,'' a child says in a sing-song voice. ''This is the gas that George bought for his SUV. This is the oil company executive that sold the gas that George bought for his SUV. These are the countries where the executive bought the oil, that made the gas that George bought for his SUV. And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.''
''Oil money supports some terrible things. What kind of mileage does your SUV get?'' the ad concludes.
THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
In a series of close-ups, the second ad explores the purported consequences of buying foreign oil, juxtaposed with excuses people make for buying SUVs: ''I helped hijack an airplane.'' ''I like to sit up high.'' ''I helped blow up a nightclub.'' ''It makes me feel safe.'' ''I sent our soldiers off to war.''
''What is your SUV doing to national security?'' it asks. ''Detroit, America needs hybrid cars now.''
Affiliates of the Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC network in New York and Los Angeles have refused to air the ads because they are too controversial, Huffington said. The spots appear Sunday on network stations and for the rest of the week on cable TV news channels.
Huffington planted the seeds for The Detroit Project in her nationally syndicated column in October by fantasizing about a people's ad campaign taking the government to task for failing to pass tougher fuel efficiency standards while waging war to protect cheap oil.
Readers flooded her ''in'' basket with more than 5,000 letters by the next morning, asking where to send money for the mythical campaign. Within three weeks she had raised $200,000 to pay for a week of airtime and production of the ads.
Huffington recruited her hiking pal Laurie David, wife of ''Seinfeld'' creator Larry David, who had convinced her to swap her gas-guzzling Lincoln Navigator for a fuel-efficient Toyota Prius, and film producer Lawrence Bender and talent agent Ari Emanuel to guide the spots through production.
Although they had budgeted $50,000 to produce the spots, written by ''Got Milk?'' creator Scott Burns, most of the costs were waived when people learned about the project, Burns said.
The Detroit Project founders said plans to expand the campaign to more cities or to make new ads must await the public's response -- and their money.
''Some people will think we went too far. I personally wanted to be very confrontational,'' Bender said. ''Sept. 11 was very confrontational.''
Reut03:17 01-09-03
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eelfreakrobi
Member
I find that so stupid!! So anyone driving an SUV will get all the blame and the ones against it that are driving a 40 mph tops hybrid honda car are our heroes? Bulls**t, they also consume gasoline!
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fishkid1000
Guest
Then dont buy fossil fuel. Duuhhhhhh
I go up to local resort to snowboard (really fun) about every weekend and you have to have something w/ 4 wheel drive or you will probably slide off thre road 200 fett down a 75degree rocky slope. In fact last monday a 19 year old died and they were in a civic.
I go up to local resort to snowboard (really fun) about every weekend and you have to have something w/ 4 wheel drive or you will probably slide off thre road 200 fett down a 75degree rocky slope. In fact last monday a 19 year old died and they were in a civic.
eelfreakrobi
Member
thanks to all those stupid people protesting to bother the world, im gonna go and buy the new h2 hummer! I wish
barry769
Member
I love how its completely the auto maker's fault too. Nobody likes to mention the fact that honda is making a hybrid civic that looks nearly identical to a normal civic but it isn't going to sell anywhere near as many units as the normal engine model will. People don't like change, they don't understand how it works so they won't buy it. Plus most people are too stupid to realise that they don't have to plug a gas/electric hybrid in. The auto companies are trying to research new types of fuels, but they can only go as fast as the public will let them. I go to Kettering Univ. used to be General Motors Institute, and the major US companies are donating huge amounts of money to our school for new labs so that we can research fuel cells, but the public doesn't want it yet. Don't forget too that if they switch types of fuels you would need a new type of refueling station, and i'm sure those will be real quick to show up.
eelfreakrobi
Member
barry769 lol, IMO electric cars will not be the future, most of us like fast cars and the hybrid will never ever pass 75 mph.
fireeater
Member
jwtrojan44,
That was funny!
I drive 3 SUV's
A Durango which you can see at the website below.
An Exterra for my wife.
And my toy in the pic below, Chevy S-10 converted over with Jeep axles and 40" tires. The 2 kids are my daughter and niece. (daughter on right)
Driving 3 only terrorizes one thing.....my wallet!
That was funny!
I drive 3 SUV's
A Durango which you can see at the website below.
An Exterra for my wife.
And my toy in the pic below, Chevy S-10 converted over with Jeep axles and 40" tires. The 2 kids are my daughter and niece. (daughter on right)
Driving 3 only terrorizes one thing.....my wallet!
tangtang
Member
My husband's Mustang uses as much gas as my Explorer... Just Thursday I got into an accident. I ran into the back end of a Ford Taurus. My Explorer is damaged; but the Taurus is 1/2 it's original size. I'd go for the protection some SUV's provide over saving money at the gas station any day. Sorry if that is not patriotic. It's survival and without it, we do not have the luxury of free speech.
reefaddicted
Member
LMAO, You've got to be one desperate liberal to expect anyone to beleive that driving an SUV supports terrorism. Makes me want to get a second Durango!
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fishkid1000
Guest
Hey fireeater nice rig.