"I'd love to have a cleaner environment, but . . .

[Synnical]

"That's like asking someone to give up chocolate."

That's a line from a BP commercial running continually on CNN.

What does chocolate have to do with cars?

Only in the US, I suspect . . .

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[firefox]

1. They don't put MTBE in chocolate n/t

[earthboundmisfit]

2. I was just bitching about that commercial yesterday, in fact!

Thanks for voicing my thoughts, Synnical! It is absolutely inane.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Those BP commercials are so fake.

Like the woman holding a baby and saying BP should be "even better than EPA standards." No "ordinary American" talks like that. The earlier versions were even worse. Who writes those?

[jzodda]

10. Lol many ordinary people will not even know

what the EPA does and even less about its standards

I too think those commercials are the height of stupidity. I also hate the ones about "clean" coal. CLEAN ok what a laugh!!

[madeline_con]

13. Who writes those?

A petroleum company. :hi:

[madeline_con]

4. "What does chocolate have to do with cars?"

Being spoiled...

[Synnical]

9. Touche

I suspect these ads are only being run in the US.

[deadparrot]

5. Yeah, if eating chocolate resulted in the poisoning and death

of much life (human and otherwise) on Earth. :eyes:

[DemBones DemBones]

6. write BP and tell them they should change the ad.

someone at the ad agency is clueless. so's whoever approved it from bp.

[Atman]

7. LOL! I can't believe you posted that!

That commercial has been a sore spot for me for ages. I can't tell you how many times I've almost started this very same thread.

That commercial is just plain stupid.

"That's like asking someone to give up chocolate."

So this woman is actually trying to make the case that, given the choice, she'd sooner asphyxiate in a toxic cloud than give up eating CHOCOLATE? Oh my god...a fat woman saying she wouldn't give up chocolate even if it'd mean a clean environment. This is the picture of America we present to the world!

[jzodda]

8. Wow! I was just thinking about this yesterday!!!

First off as a diabetic yeah I DID have to give up chocolate

Next off I could not get the stupid comparison. Without Chocolate my life goes on as normal. But take away my car and my life becomes pretty miserable with the relative lack of public transportation around here.

[otohara]

11. Can You Believe That ? ? ?

She obviously doesn't know much about where we get our chocolate either.

[laruemtt]

12. ah c'mon y'all - give her a break

after all, she just LOVES her car. heh heh heh heh i think that laugh of hers at the end is about when i want to smack her.

[dcfirefighter]

14. Well, dumb, but true

The very last thing most people want is to pay more for (transportation, goods, housing, energy, ... ) but that is what must happen if we are to reduce consumption of limited resources. Such is the price of our reliance on a fuel source who's costs are largely external to the user. Internalizing those costs will make them more expensive to the user. We keep waiting for some technological deus ex machina to solve our problems, but without serious and wide-reaching changes in our resource (land, fuel, energy, material) uses, we'll continue to need to expropriate more than our (US) 'fair' share of resources from other nations. If we reduce our consumption -from energy dependent food to local food; automobile based, sprawling 3000 s.f. mini mansions to urban transit based 1500 s.f. condos, etc., we will be moving in the right direction.

AFAIK, BP is by far not the worst of the oil companies.

[Enquiringkitty]

15. How about getting all of the factories and processing plants to

clean up what they put into the air 24 hours a day and use less non-renewable fuels. Most corporations are still using outdated systems which use vastly more fuel than needed because they say it is to expensive to update and convert to a system which uses much less fuel to manufacture their good. Europe did it years ago because they knew production would go up with updated equipment and profits would be higher in the long run due to paying for less fuel. Our corporation whine and moan about last quarters numbers and don't care about the future. I have had to work on equipment that had fuel oil leaking out on the floor ... down the drain and no one would authorize a work order to repair it. They are money grubbing pigs.

[Bleacher Creature]

16. Is this the one?

http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=bp+environment+chocolate&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&u=www.bp.com/genericarticle.do%3FcategoryId%3D2010104%26contentId%3D2018691&w=bp+environment+chocolate&d=C8E13AA239&icp=1&.intl=us

[Synnical]

18. Yeah, that's the one

[TheWatcher]

17. And THAT in a nutshell is what we are up against in this country

How can a patient be helped that simply doesn't want to be cured?