10 Jan 05
An activist who for two years researched the impact of oil on climate change and human rights berates a Ford representative about the 'token' gestures of eco-friendly 'sport-utes' such as Ford's Escape Hybrid. A Detroit DJ and his rap-happy crew spit vitriol at the namby-pamby activists. They'd sooner give up their women than their Caddies. The preacher who thought up the 'What Would Jesus Drive' message pootles about in his Toyota Prius, looking pretty smug.
Meanwhile, in the soot of Los Angeles, 'Six-car Man' shows off his collection of 911s. His daughter, we find out, almost got named 'Porsche'. Six-car Man clearly has a bit of wodge behind him. Not so a young Latino at the mercy of Los Angeles' creaking public transport system. She complains of having to wait over an hour for a bus on some days; she's saving up enough money to buy - you guessed it - another car to add to L.A.'s two million.
Asked what the Messiah might have driven, a brash, tubby spokesman for SUV Owners of America says, "Well, Jesus was a carpenter, and he had twelve hangers-on, so he probably would have had the biggest (SUV) he could get." Armed with this logic, what are the Greens supposed to do?
