Gas

This is my question for today: are the people at Shell's marketing department completely barking insane?


Judge for yourself with this ad, which appeared next to an article I was reading in Scientific American.


Is liquefied natural gas the way to a cleaner energy future?


Gosh, who knows? I'm an office worker, not a geophysicist or an environmental scientist.

Then the image of a 30-something woman who looks like she's been forced to answer the door while stoned fades in.


This Spanish fashion designer thinks so.


Well, that settles that then. Speaking for myself, I never believe anything about the relative merits of energy production methods unless it's been endorsed by a Spanish fashion designer. That'd just be CRAZY!


She wants cleaner energy, and LNG can provide it.


And what Spanish fashion designers want, Spanish fashion designers get. It's a good thing she doesn't want shoulderpads to make a comeback.


So we ship it nearly 6000km


...in smelly, rusting, diesel-quaffing ships...


to bring cleaner energy to Spain.


Third World countries, whose energy requirements are not beholden to the desires of bong-addled fashionistas, can stick with brown coal and die of respiratory diseases for all we care.


Discover how...


Translation: Click here and risk being contaminated by more of our deranged marketing.