Possibly it makes sense somewhere
Apr. 4th, 2007 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenSo I'm driving into work this morning, as is my wont, and the radio plays one of those Mastercard "Priceless" commercials. As these commercials have been playing since the Hawley-Smoot Tariff was relevant in current events we all know how they go and for the most part tune them out. However, today I got caught. Here's what the commercial was:
Crying baby, parent takes the kid for a car ride in the middle of the night. Voiceover says:
"Gas at 3:30am Tuesday: $25
Gas at 2:45 am Thursday: $43
Gas at 5:10am Saturday: $39"
And then the usual tagline about a good night's sleep for the kid is priceless.
Now I'm obviously not remembering the times and amounts exactly but I'm close enough for government work and therefore rather than thinking I gotta get me one of them Mastercards, my actual reaction is:
How far are they driving this child and how shitty is their gas milage that this is how often they have to fill the tank??
I mean okay, granted that they're probably using the car to drive to work and what have you, but still, filling the frikkin' thing up every couple of days?? I can drive my car from NYC to Baltimore on a single tank of gasoline. And filling my tank costs me between $20-25 depending on the prices that day, and that's living in a town that has a very hefty gas tax so I guarantee that unless you live in, say, Los Angeles or Europe you're not paying more than me.
So really all this ad makes me want to do is pull these folks aside and explain maybe they should ditch the Hummer and the five gallons to the mile that they're currently getting and possibly look into investing in a hybrid. Especially since they're apparently driving their child along the Appalachian Trail and back again, so let's not even get into what their emissions are doing for the environment either.
Sheesh.
Crying baby, parent takes the kid for a car ride in the middle of the night. Voiceover says:
"Gas at 3:30am Tuesday: $25
Gas at 2:45 am Thursday: $43
Gas at 5:10am Saturday: $39"
And then the usual tagline about a good night's sleep for the kid is priceless.
Now I'm obviously not remembering the times and amounts exactly but I'm close enough for government work and therefore rather than thinking I gotta get me one of them Mastercards, my actual reaction is:
How far are they driving this child and how shitty is their gas milage that this is how often they have to fill the tank??
I mean okay, granted that they're probably using the car to drive to work and what have you, but still, filling the frikkin' thing up every couple of days?? I can drive my car from NYC to Baltimore on a single tank of gasoline. And filling my tank costs me between $20-25 depending on the prices that day, and that's living in a town that has a very hefty gas tax so I guarantee that unless you live in, say, Los Angeles or Europe you're not paying more than me.
So really all this ad makes me want to do is pull these folks aside and explain maybe they should ditch the Hummer and the five gallons to the mile that they're currently getting and possibly look into investing in a hybrid. Especially since they're apparently driving their child along the Appalachian Trail and back again, so let's not even get into what their emissions are doing for the environment either.
Sheesh.
