What’s the best way to avoid those green cops at the grocery store who take shoppers down for asking for plastic instead of paper?

Don’t ask for plastic, that’s for sure. It’s what got the first of many normal Americans arrested by the Green Police in the spoofy Superbowl ad for the 2010 Audio A3 TDI. Its special green feature: clean diesel power.

It actually took a long time to get to the point about the greeniness of diesel in the ad. But it was a fun wait, as the Audi Green Police systematically bring the Tea Party’s worst nightmare to life –  hordes of socialist green police arresting unwary Americans in the act of not-being green. Was easy to picture Al Gore directing this gem of a commercial.

First a guy gets knocked down and cuffed for asking for a plastic grocery bag, “Ya picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy!” growls the burly green cop.

Then backed by a 1980’s style rock ballad extolling the virtues of the green, you see shots of:

• police discovering a battery that was in the trash instead of being recycled
• a helicopter putting a spotlight on a homeowner committing a “compost infraction” for putting his orange peel in the garbage disposal
• the arrest of a home owner for using incandescent light bulbs
• a couple being harassed for heating their hot tub to 105 degrees, and
• a cop scolding two teenagers as he empties their plastic water bottles.

Then, finally, in a traffic roadblock to check on all sorts of anti-green driving, the Green Police let the driver of the Audi A3 TDI out of the backup and scoot him on his way because he’s driving a clean diesel car. “You’re good to go, sir!”

Tags: Audi A3 TDI, Green Police