One of this year's Super Bowl ads has some bearing on green politics and American priniciples:

Environmentalist bloggers, after some thought, have embraced the ad's message.

"The ad only makes sense if it's aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police", writes David Roberts at the Huffington Post.

I, on the other hand, am more than a little disturbed by the ad's presumption that government should be actively, and coercively, changing the way Americans consume and use energy, especially as the "man-made global warming" consensus continues to crumble.

After all, the "moral authority" of the green police can only be based on compelling scientific evidence (which is now more and more credibly being called into question), and second of all, the right of the "green police" to destroy the freedoms of Americans who remain skeptical about the benefit of reducing carbon emissions, taking into consideration the huge expense this will be to our already hurting economy.

So if the "green" way of life forced upon Americans by the "green police" actually solves nothing, why shouldn't we resist their attempts to "save" us from nothing, while simultaneously trampling our liberty?

I know what liberty looks like, and it is nothing like the worldview offered, even satirically, by Audi.