Produced by the director of"Don't Look Up," the ad assures viewers Chevron has"billions and billions of dollars to pay for this commercial time, this cheesy footage, and this bullshit music.
"We at Chevron believe there is nothing more precious than life," the voiceover says over footage of a newborn baby and mother."And the most precious life of all is the dead kind, that has been compressed for hundreds of millions of years under massive rocks until it magically becomes oil." The parody ad, which was released Thursday, goes on to show a wind power farm, a child's birthday party, marine life, and a picturesque image of an oil rig at sunset as the narration explains that the oil it refines and sells as gasoline makes it possible for"a cool-ass tank" to"crush a clay hut" and an airplane to"take a businessman 3,000 miles to have dinner with someone, or whatever, all the while releasing greenhouse gases that are transforming the planet right...
The company also has"billions and billions of dollars," the narrator says,"to pay for this commercial time, this cheesy footage, and this bullshit music, all so you'll be lulled into a catatonic state that makes you forget one singular fact: Chevron is actively murdering you every day.
The parody, which was produced by film director Adam McKay, amounted to a"surprisingly honest" advertisement for Chevron,
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