Finally, someone has the guts to equate the SUV phenomenon with helping oil companies support regimes that support terrorists. Finally, and one of the people behind a new TV campaign is none other than Arianna Huffington, who apparently traded in her SUV last year for a fuel-sipping hybrid car. The ads are going to start running Sunday and they sound very smart, a take off on the anti-drug ads now being show everywhere. Here’s the clip from the linked article:
“This is George,” [what a great name for a strawman, ed.] a girl’s voice says of an oblivious man at a gas station. “This is the gas that George bought for his SUV.” The screen then shows a map of the Middle East. “These are the countries where the executives bought the oil that made the gas that George bought for his SUV.” The picture switches to a scene of armed terrorists in a desert. “And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.”