My initial reaction was very positive: Audi is exposing the “green police” for the elitists they are.
But then at the end they boasted about their “green diesel” being exempt from the “green police” and that “green has never felt so right.”
What’s more: the news reports, presumably based on Audi’s PR press kit, say the manufacturer’s intent is to use “light-hearted” comedy to encourage everyone to “go green.”
Light hearted?? Comedy??? It sure scared the HEQQ out of me!
It’s even scarier to think we live in an Orwellian world in which Audi thinks its customers will mindlessly accept such propaganda as good for them and that resistors like me who prefer to stick with incandescent light bulbs, use plastic grocery bags, and soak our weary bones in hot tubs warm enough to kill off harmful bacteria must be carted off to jail.
Of course, it’s possible that Audi is trying to have it both ways — to appease the oppressors; even while showing the rest of us how horrible it would be to live in such a society and in one in which the regulator could also ban the vehicles they sell and that their customers want to buy.
They are a German-owned company, so it’s possible they are doing what some of their ancestors tried to do while under fascist control. I don’t know. As one of the bloggers said, “The ad only makes sense if it’s aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police.”
Well: I don’t acknowledge the moral authority of a crowd that, under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, has caused s many tens of thousands of Americans to die prematurely in the little deathtraps our government’s “green police” have foisted on us.
And neither should Audi.

