Can you imagine that? Well hopefully the videos below will help to stimulate your creativity. For some big machinery, twisting the key will actually start the machine, but for others, you may need to pull the trigger to start the engine of the thing, if it’s powered by a super miniature combustion engine. That’s the world where everything is powered by petrol. And you thought it’s not as ridiculous as you may imagine, but let’s not forget that combustion engines releases toxic carbon smokes, so yes it’s mayhem to even imagine.

Renault-Nissan has kicked off a massive advertising campaign intended to highlight the advanced technology of electric vehicles with the debut of a pair of videos that bang home the point that consumers depend upon electricity to power items used everyday and that using gasoline is, in some instances, utterly ridiculous. Watch the video after the jump.

In one spot, a middle-aged man wakes up for work to the burning whistle of his gas-powered alarm clock and with a few fierce tugs at his coffee maker’s rip cord, manages to fire up the gas-gulping machine. That same man, while at the office, walks up to a miniature gas pump to refuel his laptop computer.

Oh, and the owner of a Chevrolet Volt, while standing at the gas pump refueling his plug-in hybrid, watches in envy as another man across the street unplugs his Nissan Leaf and drives off as onlookers watch in amazement. Yep, that’s how Nissan sees the world if “Gas Powered Everything.”

Right, now we’re waiting for Chevrolet to counter this advertisement with a Nissan Leaf that ran out of electric and getting towed by a tow truck that spit out black smokes.