cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/295424
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
They got a mythbuster recently to try and capture the millennial audience
Growing up, the amount of Lego and Shell sets that were around was astounding. And apparently, ExxonMobil did a few brand deals with them as well.
Trying to make gas stations(fossil fuels)cool isn’t anything new. The number of toys branded with oil companies is staggering.
Did they make something like gas trucks and gas stations? Or was it just the sponsors on the little race car sets? The race cars make sense, but if there were people building Lego gas stations, oil rigs and stuff thats wild
It’s a shame that younger people, who are struggling with economy and have generally less money, can only buy older cars that need twice as much fuel as a newer, efficient model (or ev that can be zero emission, depending on source of electricity), but also pollute three times as much.
I don’t know who shell is trying to fool. No one, especially young people will ever think buying petrol is cool so they should do it more. It’s something they hate to do as there is often little choice.
Oh good. I was just thinking “Hmm, I haven’t tried Fortnite in a long while, maybe I should check it out again.” …Yeah. …No.