Comments on: Stephen Colbert and Prescott Oil: Buy More Oil to Save the Environment

By: The Green Scene Oct 6th « The Written One

The Green Scene Oct 6th « The Written One — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:37:19 +0000

[...] finally, who would have thought that using more oil would help solve the problem? Stephen Colbert’s cutting edge coverage of climate change, global warming and oil addiction continues with this controversial report on the [...]

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:52:52 +0000

Satire is often at its best when served with a political slant.

Of course, we’re laughing at the Prescott Oil mock advert, but that’s really just a distillation (pardon the pun) of the kind of crass, patronizing messages and empty rhetoric we get from these guys…

By: GreenJoyment

GreenJoyment — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:01:05 +0000

(Because this is who we are… just like you… we’re your friends… not at all interested in just profiting from what’s most profitable in a given era.)

Chevron: “Watch as we tap the power of human energy…” Your energy spent earning money, pouring that right into our pockets. Just watch as we do it.

Seriously, I’m glad these big companies are working on this stuff, but it’s presented in such a topical way in these commercials… who wouldn’t this sound good to?

It makes me think they are spending a lot more on their commercials to let us know they’re working on it, than they’re actually spending working on it.

Awesome post. Thanks for putting all of this together into one place.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:07:16 +0000

In defense of the gas companies, I do believe that they have doe their small part to make the world better.

I spend most of my day inside working on a computer screen, and as such, my eye are not accustomed to the sunlight when I go outside. For decades, gas companies have had a ruthless dedication to creating a “protective tinting” in the atmosphere to protect my eyes from the bright sun. Thanks guys!

There we go. Now I finally fit in.

By: Max Gladwell

Max Gladwell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:59:41 +0000

Ricky: Please don’t. We usually point out that Colbert is taking someone to task in his satire. This is the first time we sortof turned it around as if he was being serious, so we can see how you might have thought we were serious.

Nothing like fake outrage over fake outrage. Where does it end?

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:56:40 +0000

Well now I feel like a jerk. T_T

By: Max Gladwell

Max Gladwell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:55:48 +0000

Ricky: Indeed, we were playing along.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:54:00 +0000

Not sure if you realized it, but Colbert was being satirical. Prescott Oil was invented by his writers to ridicule the actual oil companies.

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By: Melinda

Melinda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:25:12 +0000

I think I’m going to throw up now. A few years ago, one of the 25 minute Shell commercials came with our newspaper. Amazing. They are extremely good at making propaganda – the best that big money can buy. Wow. Interesting to see them all in one place.