As I watched Sunday football i observed a commercial for an electric car made by Nissan. They have called this car the Leaf. This hilarious commercial and even the name of the fallacies.
http://youtu.be/j0sCCJFkEbE
They try and appeal to emotions by everything using gas and the exhaust being blown into their faces while they cough or are annoyed by it. They then show the man filling up his Chevy Volt which is a hybrid. They say "what if everything ran on gas" and the show the Nissan Leaf "Then again what if everything didn't."
This is a non requital argument. While the commercial is funny it is not painting a picture if a greener planet. Even though electric cars do not produce carbon emissions in the car it does have an eco-footprint. To produce most electricity in the United States we burn fossil fuel. The Nissan Leaf runs on electricity. Electricity is produce by burning fossil fuel. Burning fossil fuel produces carbon emissions. Thus the Nissan Leaf Produces carbon emmissions.
I have seen this commercial while watching football also. I think your obviously right by saying that the commercial is funny. I think a commercials success relies on if it is funny or not. There were able to accomplish that here. It does seem to have some fallacies which you point out in your argument.
ReplyDeleteBefore reading your annalysis i watched the coommercial. After watching it i felt bad about using all the electronics and hoped that maybe someday we would all own cars like the Leaf. Yet after reading your analysis i realized how little i was informed.
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