Put down that rind!

Enjoy the Super Bowl? Too bad the ads didn’t quite measure up to the game. The best of the lot had to be Audi’s spot for its new diesel model, where “Green Police” shake down everyone  for environmentally unfriendly behavior: choosing plastic (instead of paper) at the store — “You picked the wrong day to mess with the eco system, plastic boy!” — committing a compost infraction (throwing away an orange peel) and possession of an incandescent light bulb. The ad ends with the Audi being waved through an eco roadblock, where officers in forest-green shorts search vehicles for violations. Laugh now, but Al Gore and other environmental types probably thought, “Hmm. Eco cops searching residential trash bins for improperly discarded batteries, choppers with floodlights looking into people’s kitchens … yeah, that’s a good idea!”

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