This is freakin’ brilliant: “Chevy’s ‘Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial’ idea not exactly going as planned”.
Too funny.
(Hat tip to Huff Po…and another BRAD BLOG reader who tried to point me to these earlier, but whose name I’ve forgotten. With apologies.)
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Heh. Whoever came up with this bright idea is, like, way, way so, fired…. 🙂
Did anyone watch This Week on Sunday.
One past Secretary of Labor and others in a fairly agreed to discussion, talked about GM and the parts are parts part of GM which is in trouble financially.
If the parts thingy goes down GM is going to file bankruptcy. No choice.
The Secretary of Labor indicated that this will be the greatest bailout with your tax dollars, since the Savings and Loan debacle of the late 80’s and early 90’s.
I honestly think, sometimes, that there is a deliberate movement by this regime to damage the economy so bad that many, many will be glad to join the military.
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The original commercial that was at the link I posted as an "off topic" in the "Sequoia found hackable in PA" thread was taken down the next day. However…
I put the link on Bradblog the same night I sent it out to my "radical and rebel homeschoolers and friends" list. Someone on that list said we should keep cranking out commercials to replace them as fast as they disappeared.
I think a lot of other people had the same idea.
🙂 Poor Chevy – wish I’d been a fly on the wall in the meeting following THAT "aw s**t" moment.
I guess mine would have read;
Instead of being in bed with Big Oil all those years and buying up energy efficient patents, why didn’t we just use one of them ?
Who says the current level of oil prices has to be the peak? Is that written somewhere?
This commercial looks to me like a tongue-in-cheek attempt to attract the viewer’s attention. Nothing more or less than Madison Avenue innovation; futile maybe, but this kind of stuff has sometimes worked in the past.
I’m more concerned by the phrase "peak oil." If Wall Street thinks oil prices have peaked (I don’t), they’ll take stocks up from here and create a real 1990s-style bubble. When the Dow makes a new high, it will be the lead story…and with Bush and the G.O.P. in trouble politically, the media (which are corporate entities above all else) will milk the news for all it’s worth.
I know there are some incredibly talented and creative people here – care to try your hand at making your OWN commercial?
Link
And PLEASE let us know when it’s up.
Thanks for the morning Brad and KBE. That was great.
Robert, I don’t think the term "Peak Oil" is referring to the price – it’s referring to the amount of available oil that can be pumped out of the ground with the current technology – with that in mind, there will never be a peak for the price of oil, it’s only going to go up.
Here’s mine. I chose to focus on the injury potential of SUV’s.
http://www.chevyapprentice.com/...b-0013724ff5a7
Here’s mine. A nasty negative selling campaign. I’m rather pleased with it.
http://www.chevyapprentice.com/...b-0013724ff5a7
sukabi is CORRECT.. RLM, "peak oil" has nothing to do with cost, and everything to do with reserves. The concept of "peak oil" is that we’re now past the "mid point" of all the oil there was.. that is, we’ve used up 1/2 of all the oil, now we’re on the back side of what there is left.
Given the demand on the remaining amount of oil, we’re screwed. 1 billion indians and 1 billion chinese want to live "like Americans" now, but at 7% of the population, we were once using 50% of the worlds raw resources (down to like 45% now that we’re not such an industrial base anymore). One of the major resources consumed now is oil.. and Inida and China (combined to be near 6 times as many people as in the U.S.) want "the good life" too.
I also found a site (howthingswork.com) that explained that running a 100 watt light bulb for a year consumes 2 tons of coal. We REALLY need to make a huge push toward renewable energy (and not crops that require oil to grow/harvest.. that defeats the purpose). I’m looking to get solar panels installed on my house. I can generate near 3Kw/hr and only use like 1.2 Kw/hour on average during the winter (2.5 during the hottest summer months with central air). The power company is PAYING me to put up the panels (rebates, but drastically reduces the cost), then will BUY electricity from me (what ever I generate FREE, but don’t use for myself).
The technology has been out there for a LONG time. It’s just not in the financial best interests of power companies or oil companies to refine those technologies. And our government has been giving EXACTLY the wrong people "tax dollars" to do the research. That is, we’re paying oil/gas/power companies to burry tech that would help us.. nice, huh?
Sukabi #9 is correct RLM #6.
Peak oil is a term that means that the nonrenewable resource, petroleum, has a limited quantity.
A scientist, Hubbert, predicted the time when we would reach the peak amount of oil being brought from the earth, and from that time on the barrels per day would continually diminish.
He predicted it a decade before it happened in the US, and he predicted it for about the year 2000 for the world.
Once the world realizes this nonrenewable resource is an endangered species, all hell will break loose.
That is the theory and all fear aside, that is also the reality. Here is what the Army Corps of Engineers said:
“Once worldwide petroleum production peaks, geopolitics and market economics will result in even more significant price increases and security risks. To guess where this is all going to take us is would be too speculative. Oil wars are certainly not out of the question” (link here, bold added).
There is debate as to how close he was on the 2000 year prediction (3-10 yrs either way), but not much on his prediction of 1970 as the year the US reached its peak oil mark (link here, and here).
Savantster #12
Did not know you had posted, or would not have repeated your points.
😀 :laugh: lol
That certainly does change the meaning.
RLM – One additional point that the others didn’t cover in reply to your note. You may not have read the article carefully enough. Those are created by CITIZENS, not by Chevy who simply gave folks the tools to make the videos you’ve probably seen by now.
Somehow, or another, Chevy (I guess) didn’t realize what they were opening themselves up for there!
Mimi & JB – Enjoyed both of those muchly! 🙂 — Thanks for sharing!
here’s mine!
LINK
I see a more sunny approach, what with Iraq being a new "market" and all…
Introducing the 2006 Tahoe Baghdad XL
Hey y’all!
I heard this story was briefly covered on "Nightline" last night – anybody see it?
BTW, I’ve been checking out the ones y’all link here – VERY creative! *bfg*
For even more (and a chance to link yours to the "Chevy Carnival") – LINK
And there are a few more on youtube (do a video search on "chevy tahoe commercial")
I especially like "What Would Jesus Drive?"
Thanks to all the various posts on this page, I’ve become a "chevy Tahoe Apprentice" addict!
Who knew that creating one of these a day would keep the doctor away! (Cathartic, freeing, and magical!)
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