{"id":297297,"date":"2010-02-09T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2010-02-09T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:17:24","slug":"by-the-way-you-look-fantastic-in-your-car-of-audi-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297297","title":{"rendered":"By the way you look fantastic in your car of Audi plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Giberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Audi said its &#8220;Green Police&#8221; commercial, shown during the Super Bowl, was meant to be funny.\u00a0 Turns out that neither the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=17782\">Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council<\/a>, nor at least <a href=\"http:\/\/getenergysmartnow.com\/2010\/02\/07\/the-most-environmentally-unfriendly-super-bowl-ad\/\">some environmentalists<\/a>, were amused.\u00a0 I found the ad annoying &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure why &#8211; but anything that can unite the American Chemistry Council with at least some environmentalists has something going for it, right?\u00a0 (More on the ad controversy at <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2010\/02\/audis-green-police-ad-stirs-controversy\/1\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The folks at the chemistry council set up a response website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpoliceconfused.com\/\"><em>Green Police Confused<\/em><\/a>, pointing out how the extensive use of plastic in the Audi A3 TDI helped the car win the &#8220;2010 Green Car of the Year&#8221; award at the LA Auto Show.\u00a0 Now that&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<p>For your viewing pleasure, first the Audi ad and then a celebration of the plastics in Audi&#8217;s &#8220;Green Car of the Year&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/2010\/02\/09\/by-the-way-you-look-fantastic-in-your-car-of-audi-plastic\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Wq58zS4_jvM\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/2010\/02\/09\/by-the-way-you-look-fantastic-in-your-car-of-audi-plastic\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/_6VWYqIgx_c\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HT to Tom Fowler, indispensable at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/2010\/02\/superbowl_ad_ri_1.html\"><em>NewsWatch: Energy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/knowledgeproblem.wordpress.com\/6409\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=knowledgeproblem.com&#038;blog=5880275&#038;post=6409&#038;subd=knowledgeproblem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Giberson Audi said its &#8220;Green Police&#8221; commercial, shown during the Super Bowl, was meant to be funny.\u00a0 Turns out that neither the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, nor at least some environmentalists, were amused.\u00a0 I found the ad annoying &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure why &#8211; but anything that can unite the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}