Juno News - Sebastian Vettel is just another climate hypocrite

00:00:00.000 Now, there's two types of people that I really can't stand, hypocrites and slow drivers.

00:00:04.000 And last weekend, Canadians were treated to a two-in-one package when Sebastian Vettel showed

00:00:08.300 up to the Canadian Grand Prix wearing a t-shirt that said, Stop Mining Tar Sands Oil, Canada's

00:00:14.340 Climate Crime. Now, Sebastian Vettel finished the race on Sunday, 44 seconds behind the winner,

00:00:19.800 Max Verstappen. And to his credit, Sebastian Vettel used to be fast. He used to be quite a

00:00:23.880 good racer. But now he's slower around the track than the customs line at Pearson Airport.

00:00:27.760 Sebastian Vettel races for a team called Aston Martin Racing. One of Aston Martin's biggest

00:00:33.680 sponsors is Aramco, Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer and the company responsible

00:00:40.760 for 4% of global carbon emissions. Yes, one company responsible for 4% of the global carbon

00:00:47.980 emissions. A man sporting the Aramco logo on his helmet and on his jacket of the race and on his

00:00:54.020 car said that it would be a good idea for a foreigner visiting Canada as a guest of our

00:00:58.580 country to attack our oil sands production, to attack our clean production while sporting the

00:01:04.300 logo of bloodstained Saudi Arabian oil manufacturers. Now, I think it's fair that we expect our athletes

00:01:10.800 not to be the brightest bulbs in the box, not to be the smartest people around. But as soon as they

00:01:16.080 decide to attack the country they are visiting as a guest and engage in activism, they better be able

00:01:21.320 to answer for that. They better be able to answer for the fact that this man is making $15 million a

00:01:26.800 year off of the back of a Saudi Arabian bloodstained oil manufacturer in Aramco. Now, he was asked about

00:01:34.000 his protest in a press conference. Now, just listen to the hypocrisy of this low IQ race car driver.

00:01:40.380 I do a lot of reading on the subject because I find this, yeah, fascinating might be the wrong word,

00:01:46.280 but it's, you know, there's a lot going on. And I think we live in a time and age where

00:01:50.020 we are so much aware of a lot of things.

00:01:54.200 So he does a lot of reading on the subject and we live in a time and an age where we

00:01:57.900 are so much aware of a lot of things. Shakespearean one might say.

00:02:01.140 I think, you know, what happens in Alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees

00:02:08.920 and you basically destroy the place just to extract oil. And the manner of doing it with

00:02:16.360 the tar sands mining or oil sands mining is horrible for nature. And obviously Canada's

00:02:22.340 greenhouse gas emissions also have gone up since they started doing it.

00:02:26.500 What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.

00:02:33.240 At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be

00:02:40.800 considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

00:02:47.580 Now, I think it's clear that Sebastian Vettel's attempt at activism is just a really,

00:02:50.860 is really just a sad attempt to try and stay relevant. After watching that clip, it's pretty

00:02:54.280 clear that Vettel is as slow in his head as he is in the race car. Time to hang it up, I think.

Juno News - June 24, 2022