TV Ads Say S.U.V. Owners Support Terrorists

New York Times ^ | 1/07/03 | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

[An.American.Expatriate]

Real easy solution to this one, open up the Alaska Fields.

[Las Vegas Dave]

...."open up the Alaska fields"

Dittos, BIG TIME!

[Issaquahking]

A death of common sense ping. People like Arianna should be kept in a padded cell.

[maica]

Have you seen the ad running by whoever sells the Hummer? I understand that they are selling well in Marin County.

The ad ends with words superimposed on the car "It all depends on what your definition of NEED is!"

[rolling_stone]

re
arianna..stupid is as stupid does...

[biblewonk]

I love this commercial, ping.

[xm177e2]

Most of our oil comes from Canada. When you drive an SUV, you're supporting Jean Chretien's imperialist occupation of Western Canada and his stealing of Albertan oil. But you're not supporting terrorism all that much.

[MrB]

I heard that the estimated oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico exceed known reserves in Saudi. They should be drilling the heck out of that.

[newgeezer]

It doesn't matter where our oil comes from. It's a world economy. Whether we buy it from Canada or pump it from our own backyard, someone else can't. Using it -- wasting it -- increases demand, and funds radical Islam.

[biblewonk]

It doesn't matter where our oil comes from. It's a world economy. Whether we buy it from Canada or pump it from our own backyard, someone else can't. Using it -- wasting it -- increases demand, and funds radical Islam.

Exactly right. People think it hurts Iraq if we use twice as much oil but refuse their oil. WRONG. We increase the demand and increase how much money Iraq gets for their oil that goes to japan or germany or wherever.

[Wolfie]

Damn. I drive an SUV and smoke pot. Just call me "Osama Bin Wolfie".

[biblewonk]

"What if I need to go off-road?"

ROTF. As if...

[biblewonk]

You just don't get it do you?

[Thommas]

It doesn't matter where our oil comes from. It's a world economy. Whether we buy it from Canada or pump it from our own backyard, someone else can't. Using it -- wasting it -- increases demand, and funds radical Islam.

Well, it seems that if our life style is bolstering the larder of Islamofascist terrorists, only two choices confront us: 1) Surrender our lifestyles, freedoms, and religion to Islam and become a 3rd world peasant nation, or 2) Crush the pagan scum so convincingly that they won't resurface on the geopolitical sea for another thousand years.

[biblewonk]

Well, it seems that if our life style is bolstering the larder of Islamofascist terrorists, only two choices confront us: 1) Surrender our lifestyles, freedoms, and religion to Islam and become a 3rd world peasant nation, or 2) Crush the pagan scum so convincingly that they won't resurface on the geopolitical sea for another thousand years.

What!!!??? Are you saying that if we don't have their oil we lose everything and since we can we have every right of killing them all off and taking the oil?

[LTCJ]

only two choices confront us:
1) Surrender our lifestyles, freedoms, and religion to Islam and become a 3rd world peasant nation, or
2) Crush the pagan scum so convincingly that they won't resurface on the geopolitical sea for another thousand years.

DING DING DING. I hereby award the Analysis In A Nutshell prize to Thommas. Well put, sir.

[LTCJ]

What!!!??? Are you saying that if we don't have their oil we lose everything and since we can we have every right of killing them all off and taking the oil?

Where did you get that? I will venture a guess that Thommas might share my opinion that they are quite welcome to a fair price for their oil - as long as they wet themselves at even the thought of using the profits to support terroism.

[Protagoras]

I guess this could be so if the owners were Libertarians doing their illegal stash in the name of the Constitution of course! LOL

That didn't take long. What point are you trying to make?

[Protagoras]

Damn. I drive an SUV and smoke pot.

Hopefully not at the same time.

[grasshopper2]

The most effective way to end Islamic terrorism is to take away their funding. And the way to take away their funding is to reduce our consumption oil.

If we could dramatically cut back on oil consumption, imagine how that would cripple the terrorist orgaizations.

Our parents and grandparents made far greater sacrifices during WWII. Or have we as a nation become too selfish?