Apparently the new green energy windmills are accidentally killing a lot of protected Golden Eagles in California. Some news stories have revealed how the government fines oil companies heavily for killing such protected bird species while not fining wind energy companies at all when they do it. And this might give oil companies an opportunity to get some snarky revenge via advertising.
So here's the idea for this (joke) attack ad:
The TV commercial begins with video of Golden Eagles being killed by windmills, accompanied by a new cover version of the Steve Miller Band song: "Fly Like an Eagle", modified to be called: "Die Like an Eagle", with lyrics like so:
I want to die like an eagle, by the sea,
Die like an eagle, let the windmills bury me,
I want to die like an eagle, so gory,
Consequence-free energy's an illusio-o-o-o-on...
And then, of course, the wind energy companies could make a smear campaign attack ad aimed back at the oil companies, claiming that oil companies use those chicken guns (the ones airplane manufacturers use to test the strength of their windshields and the effects of a bird strike upon jet engines: they literally shoot chickens {dead ones, I think} at airplanes out of an air cannon specially designed for this purpose.*) to shoot Golden Eagles at windmills in order to falsely accuse and smear renewable energy sources such as wind power, and all so they can continue to gouge us on oil & gas prices while they pollute the Earth and humankind into extinction. And wouldn't it be fun to watch them go after each other back and forth in attack ads like this?
(I'd prefer the renewable energy technology, if it works, though, please. It never ceases to amaze me how oil companies are not trying to develop these new forms of renewable energy, rather than simply lobbying against them: for the same price, they might own the next energy source, or at least the generators, and then we'd all win {unless they kept gouging us further}.)
* Here's a link to the Wikipedia page on chicken guns:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
And here's a link to an article about eagles killed in wind farms:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-5-years
