Great Rebuttal of a Terrible Coal Ad
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 11.12.07
The NYT's newly-minted blogger (and all-around excellent climate change journalist) Andrew Revkin follows up his earlier post exposing Peabody Energy's (laughable) ad campaign aimed at sliming Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for making the (right) decision to bar two applications for new coal plants with one looking at one organization's heroic efforts to rebut Big Coal. The team behind the snide mock attack ad (which you can see by clicking on the image above) is actually The Wichita Eagle's writing staff which, in addition to crafting a video takedown of Peabody, also penned a more conventional (but no less witty) editorial.
Oh, Mahmoud, when will you learn that only Putin's soul friend, George W. "Boosh," gets to call him "Pootie-Poot"?
Via ::Dot Earth: Striking Back at Big Coal, on Video (blog), ::The Wichita Eagle: Evil madmen plotting our energy future (newspaper)
See also: ::Greenwash Watch: Kansans for Affordable Energy, ::Big Coal To America: 'New US Power Plants Not So Important.'
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Lmao! Are u kidding me. That was hilarious! Somebody actually made such an ad. I love the pic with the kids playing happily around the coal.
Ah, yes, I had seen (in a magazine, if I believe) the coal industry's pahetic attempt to convince us that their polluting, global-warming causing product is the way to go. I would have laughed, but it's too shameless--right up there with the "CO2: We Call it Life" ads by the disgusting Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is financed by (who else?) Exxon Mobile.