Watch Kermit making "Not easy being green", please keep kicked

[gasperc]

I found this clip(link below) pretty enjoyable. I'm 38 now, but am still a big fan of the muppets and hope to turn my kids into big fans.

Ford should be commended for its efforts in this area. As progressives, we have had to fight far too long and hard to make many of these issues mainstream and the majority opinion. Let's all hope that this isn't just a publicity ploy by Ford but the start of a serious and sincere effort towards true energy efficiency and environmental friendliness.

I hope many of you enjoy the video and please keep kicking this post so others can view and enjoy the video.


http://www.fordvehicles.com/suvs/escapehybrid/?keyfeature=2&srccode=311422&bannerid=21001

[Missy Vixen]

1. "It's Not Easy Being Green" is still one of my favorite songs

I agree with you. Let's hope that Ford has made a commitment to energy efficiency and environmental friendliness, as well as commitment to its workers to pay a living wage, etcetera.

Kick.

Julie

[Squatch]

2. "Let's hope" that a company facing serious loss of market share

is not engaging in some ploy to regain it?

[jobycom]

4. The true beauty of capitalism is exactly that

Often what's best for people is exactly what's most profitable.

The ugly side of capitalism is obvious and needs little explanation--though it needs lots of regulation.

[elehhhhna]

3. Yeah. That's why Ford is sucking:

All that attention to the environment must have distracted them form thier core business. lol

[jobycom]

5. If Prius sales are any indication, buy Ford stock

The Prius sales exceeded their wildest fantasies, and has put Toyota on the path to displacing Honda as the favorite Asian car in America. Ford's early start in the hybrid race, and now their primetime commitment to promoting their new technology, rather than leaving it as an embarrassing sideline for the fringe customer, could launch them into a new profitability.

The Prius profited from being the best of a small field of offerings, though. The Insight is a wonderful car, but add one kid to a couple, and it's useless. The Prius got Insight mileage in a car the size of a Camry, so it was obviously the best buy. Ford is jumping into a hybrid market with the Prius, the Accord, Civic and Insight, a couple of high end luxury vehicles, a Chevy pickup, and even another SUV that looks almost identical. Their success will depend, I suspect, on the commercial wars and how quickly they can get their name attached to that image, before any other American carmaker does.

My short analysis. I really ought to be working, but babbling like I know something is so much more fun. :-) And I love Kermit!

[MsUSA]

7. I liked Kermit the dad more then Kermit the son........

Jim had the softer heart of Kermit then the son does. JMHO, and I love Kermmie too.

[jobycom]

10. Jim Henson

:cry: They didn't make two of him.

[gasperc]

6. the market does decide, no matter how belatedly

the market shift is decidely coming from the spike in gas prices.

To their credit, the Japanese saw the eventuality of peak oil and the concurrent spike in energy prices.

Now the big three(two) is trying to play catch since the 83mbpd of oil currently being produced as about a ZERO chance of reaching 122mbpd in 2020. So, that energy demand which the world economy will require to meet growth demands will have to come from two sources
1. Conservation-growing without using more energy
2. create a new energy source out of thin air

Ultimately the market decides, and where capitalism failed us during the 90s in terms of shifting to more fuel efficient vehicles, the gluttony of that period probably accelerated the world hitting peak oil.

[ellenfl]

8. kicking so i can see later

[zbdent]

9. Ford would do much better to make smaller cars green

than the SUVs . . . there's a market for smaller cars . . . and I'm sure that those who could afford the luxury of the SUVs would probably be able to afford the "luxury" of a hybrid smaller car . . . or are the 1 / 2 off tax breaks still in effect for SUVs?