Speechless
May 5th, 2010 | Editorial Cartoons | 7 Comments
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Okay, this one may be a reach. I wanted somehow to relate two unrelated events with the idea that the eco-terror we inflict on ourselves is as dangerous (probably far more so, in fact) than anything terrorists can do to us. I’ve looked at this cartoon about a dozen times in the last 12 hours, and six times I’ve thought it was brilliant and the other six really dumb. What the heck. It’s already drawn. I might as well post it.
Topics: car bomb, environment, offshore drilling, oil, oil platform, oil spill, opinion, terrorism, Times Square
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I vote for “brilliant.”
I like your work but I think you need to get some sleep. This one is …..
This falls a little short of most of your work, but I am grateful for it all, including your text which is always “right on”.
I wish you would use the information provided by NOAA and others re: the 3858 active oil rigs in the Gulf … Isee links below for their locations / maps provided by NOAA).
How is it that most of the American public is completely ignorant / oblivious to the obscene number of oil rigs that have been allowed to locate in Gulf Waters? Why is there constant clamoring about “considering” approval of off-shore drilling when it is obviously rampant? Surely these are among the most vulnerable targets for terrorists … which, by the way, no one has even raised as an issue in the most recent explosion. The map of current, active, rigs illustrates just how vulnerable we are and how big oil and their minions have squelched any regard for potential environmental and economic dangers …
It would be interesting to know how much energy would be created if each of those rigs was replaced by a wind farm or wave turbines …
Source and More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform & http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06mexico/background/oil/oil.html
Hi Ed. Your work is great and please continue to portray our political scene for the cartoon it is. I know your underlying messages are for the betterment of us all. What’s up with that McConnell guy (R-KY) these days? Is he on the wrong end of some bull’s horn? He knows our dependency on oil has to come to an end; he’s just not done with sucking up the money – too bad he can’t suck up the spills. Once Congress spends all the money, we’ll eat BP glazed chicken and watch our elected officials stand in line at McDonalds. One Congressman will ask the other, “Do these McNuggets seem to have an oily taste?” The other will say. “Yah, they do. Do you suppose that oil contamination goes any further than just water?” We have Wall Street, K-Street, and Congress. The pimps are bigger than the whore. CCM
I’m trying to remember the line between genius and crazy; you may be flirting with it. I like the concept.
More than 30 years ago, attempts were made to get us off the volatile oil market in the middle east and unsteady yahoos in South America. We would be a lot better off today on that score. Until common sense for the common good is achieved, we should stay out of the deep water and much deeper drilling sites, and so should the rest.
To the Palinator-types and Texas oil bozos (Bush and Cheney clans) (yes, I know the turd is from Wyoming and should be banished to Dubai where he can join his Halliburton thugs and cronies.) drill baby drill only feeds the bad guys whenever the oil does reach a tanker ship. This country barely has 7% refining capacity of the US oil taken. It goes abroad for conversion into use for your urban crusader battle cruisers that you do not need since you do not cart around the baseball team every day and rarely, if ever, really go ‘off road’. So it comes back to your local pumps as foreign oil at those grossly inflated per barrel prices, presently somewhere north of $80+ when 40 years ago it was under $3!! call that inflation? or what?