The South Park 'Hybrid' episode

Yes, I've been laughing pretty hard too.

Just up to the first commercial now. Impressions are that regardless of the end-message, the awareness is fantastic. After all, even negative publicity has proven to be beneficial.

By the way, those names in the back of the windows are great... like "Pious" and "Hindsight".

 

The recent attention drawn to ethanol has brought out the worst in the anti-hybrid crowd. Their fear of hybrids evolving to both take advantage of that renewable fuel as an energy source while at the same time also taking advantage of more electricity is rapidly becoming their worse nightmare. So the antagonistic response has been to misrepresent those supporting hybrids.

Seeing that the creators of South Park tonight were on top of the situation was great. There isn't actually any smug storm. No one is forcing anyone to abandon their current vehicle, but hybrid owners are suggesting that the new vehicles are more responsible.

It's just too darn funny and so perfectly timed. They blew that supposed attitude way out of proportion... well beyond what even the anti-hybrid wanted. It pointed out how ridiculous things have become. Of course, that fact itself actually does make me feel a little bit smug. But then again, some of the retaliation has included outright lies. And the auto market's self-destructive nature of ever-growing vehicle size & power was absurd. The ending "doom" was inevitable. It might as well arrive with a good laugh.