(When I wrote this, we weren’t nearly so energy independent, but now we’re doing lots better, largely due to fracking {although I still worry about underground water contamination}. I doubt Emerson helped, though. Also, Brazil has had a large oil spill since this ad: did Emerson help facilitate that?)
Hey, awesome! Emerson has helped Brazil become energy independent, and they’re bragging about it in an ad for American television! That’s smart, because I’m sure we were all really worried about whether or not Brazil could achieve energy independence, right? Um, sorry Emerson, and no offense Brazil, but this commercial simply reminds me about how our own government won’t allow America to tap our own energy resources, so we’ll never be energy independent! Yes, endless quagmire wars in the Middle East, terrorism, sky-high fuel prices, and lots of Obama campaign donors making out like bandits with taxpayer-funded millions in bonuses while they run their “green energy” companies into the ground: it’s awesome! And when I see this ad, all I can think of is how Emerson doesn’t seem too keen to help America with our energy independence. Or maybe they can’t.
Hey, awesome! Emerson has helped Brazil become energy independent, and they’re bragging about it in an ad for American television! That’s smart, because I’m sure we were all really worried about whether or not Brazil could achieve energy independence, right? Um, sorry Emerson, and no offense Brazil, but this commercial simply reminds me about how our own government won’t allow America to tap our own energy resources, so we’ll never be energy independent! Yes, endless quagmire wars in the Middle East, terrorism, sky-high fuel prices, and lots of Obama campaign donors making out like bandits with taxpayer-funded millions in bonuses while they run their “green energy” companies into the ground: it’s awesome! And when I see this ad, all I can think of is how Emerson doesn’t seem too keen to help America with our energy independence. Or maybe they can’t.
But la-dee-da for Brazil! Isn’t that the country President Obama gave billions of American taxpayer dollars to in order to finance a big new oil industry that doesn’t benefit America much? (Did that money go to Emerson, by any chance?) Or is that just the president’s overall energy policy: gouge American consumers, and stifle our economy with no energy while we all go broke funneling money to OPEC, and we bankrupt the country with all these failing green energy companies and failed policies? It sure seems like it, and Emerson isn’t helping with that much, so this commercial shouldn’t run here, or else we might all remember these things. Or maybe Emerson wants us all to remember this stuff so we’ll elect a Republican president so they can hire Emerson to help the U.S. exploit our natural energy resources?
I’m not even sure what to think of this one. But like I said in the other Emerson ad piece, I’d never be in a position to hire or even influence a decision about hiring Emerson anyway, so why bother my TV-viewing experience with ads for their services? It just seems like a big waste of money to me to even have an advertising campaign for Emerson anyway. But it does give me something else to write about, so thanks for that at least, Emerson.
Oh, also Emerson, if you’re going to make an ad advocating for stuff like oil drilling and natural resource exploitation, you really shouldn’t have visual effects display the Earth as being like a bubble: that will only remind us all of how fragile the planet and its ecosystems are, and then more people might oppose you. Plus, the bubble idea also reminds me about the greenhouse gasses thing, and how our atmosphere is like a bubble, trapping all emissions and pollutants from gas and oil consumption in our air. But it does look nice as a visual, even if the message you’re sending with it is the complete opposite of what you’re intending. And that renders your judgment about everything else extremely questionable, to say the least.
Here’s the oily Brazilian ad:
Oh, and Obama fans, before you bash me for this, read this article (sorry about the automatic loud audio: that’s ABC News, not me!):
