Wednesday, February 18, 2009

TAKEPART: Obama’s "Personals" Ad: Say No to Tar Sands Oil (clever!)

http://www.takepart.com/blog/2009/02/16/obamas-personal-ad-say-no-to-tar-sands-oil/

Barack Obama is a pretty busy guy these days, so to grab his attention the Canadian environmental group Forest Ethics took out a personal ad to the president in newspapers across the U.S. and Canada.  The hilarious ad is designed to woo Obama into helping end the climate changing emissions of the Canadian Tar Sands:

Patriotic, busy, Chicago-Hawaiian man, must like basketball and know how to do the fist bump. I saw you on TV. You said 'Yes, we can' and talked about a clean energy future. Meet me in Canada and we'll sweep aside the world's dirtiest oil, the Tar Sands, and make sweet climate-change solutions together.

Obama's visit to Canada on Thursday will only last about 6 hours, so they'll really need to get the message across quickly, and considering Canada's Tar Sands project emits three times as many greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil production...