Care to back up your statement that the enviros did those ads as a "joke"?
Everything I have read shows they are dead serious about getting rid of SUVs.
It started as a joke with Arianna. Then the more traditional enviro wackos started taking it seriously. Just a lesson that we have some very dumb people in politics, particularly in the media. What starts out as jokes get taken seriously way too often.
Kind of like Charlie Rangel suggesting the draft. He meant it as an anti-war argument but people started taking it seriously.