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Yet more Americans jumping to wild conclusions. If you buy a big car then you’re funding terrorists every time you fill up, according to an ad campaign running on American TV at the moment. The full story can be found on this morning’s Media Guardian pages. The reasoning? Simply that much of the world’s oil comes from the Middle East (conveniently forgetting the wells in George W’s home state of Texas, of course).
There are so many things wrong with that campaign. Most obvious is that while its aim is to villify SUV drivers it does more to increase prejudice against the Middle East. And from reports it seems that it does little to answer the question about where the petrol for smaller cars comes from. Surely the same source?
While still wildly off the mark, would it not be at least slightly more accurate to generalise the campaign around the subject of petrol rather than cars of a particular size?
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