Polluter Harmony's Latest Ad Targets Offshore Drilling (VIDEO)

After the success Senator Lisa Murkowski and lobbyist Jeff Holmstead had on Polluter Harmony, Greenpeace's fake matchmaking service is following up with a profile of another perfect match: a parody of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, an advocate of offshore drilling, and Rex, a CEO of an unnamed "Very Large Oil Corporation," though the reference to Exxon Mobil is obvious in both the name (Rex Tillerson is Exxon's CEO) and the Exxon Mobil mug sitting on his desk.

This time, the message is that open relationships are OK, too. The hidden message hints at the relationship between politicians and oil companies and their flexible loyalties when it comes to drilling abroad and offshore drilling in the U.S., depending on how lucrative it is. Despite Rex's long history with foreign oil, he's looking for a switch to something a little closer to home (ahem, offshore drilling).

"So we're still going for the Middle East," Bob says as he plays a late-night board game with Rex. "But hey, don't forget Virginia. Think globally, drill locally."

The ad comes on the heels of a letter signed by 10 coastal senators, urging Senators Lindsay Graham, John Kerry, and Joseph Lieberman to not include offshore drilling as part of a climate bill.

WATCH Polluter Harmony's latest match:

Comments

[HHUA]

11:30 AM on 03/26/2010

That about sums it up... Excellent!!!

[Dr Scott]

09:52 AM on 03/26/2010

This a pretty accurate depiction of the crass profit motivation of oil drilling. Its always short-sighted and concern No. 1 is money. Tapping our own dwindling oil reserves is dumb for one reason: it dimishes our strategic and tactical readiness. Giant countries like China would love for us to deplete our meager reserves because they can control the rest of the world's oil. Once we have to make a choice between driving to work and cranking up our war machine to defend our homeland (guess which alternative will win), we would be at the mercy of any foreign power with the ability to control our access to crude. We use 25% of the world's oil and own 4% of the world's oil reserves. It makes a lot more sense to continue to use up Iran's and Venezuela's oil than it does to use ours, especially with our strategic refining capability. Tanks and military aircraft don't work without crude oil. These Republican idiots have to ask themselves what they value more--domestic gasoline or domestic defense. Nevermind that drilling offshore will not produce cheaper gas (nobody will drill if the price of crude is low) and won't create any American jobs (sure, the few managers needed will be Americans or Brits, but the bulk of the workers will be Filipinos or Mexicans, who don't have unions).

[DesertDawgAlpha]

08:52 AM on 03/26/2010

Clearly the anwer to our energy woes is multfaceted. First, threaten to sue OPEC countries for not doing what we won't do - produce all the oil they (we) can (since we know that risks of pollution "over there" aren't as important as those risks here. Second, assume that what we wish for has any relationship to reality. We wish that wind and solar would work economically and that we'll have a magical growth in green jobs. Of course, the fact that power from these sources isn't anywhere near economic can we glossed over with government subsidies (free money! - from taxpayers). Third, recognize that energy and economic activity/growth are inextricably intertwined and that the Chinese (the bankers for the US government and it's ever expanding deficit) don't give a hoot about what we think. Indeed, the Chinese may be quietly funding cute nonsense such as this to distract us from real life.

More ethanol is probably the answer...in the world of magical thinking.

[grumpyfarmer]

08:41 AM on 03/29/2010

Good post...seems nobody is reading this thread though.