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A huge mecha made of pieces of oil refineries, gas pumps and oil tanker legs emerges out of the water
the first three panels feature ordinary people looking distressed while filling up their cars with gas. the last panel shows several businessmen surrounded by oil company logos manicially laughing while money rains down
An ice cream truck pulls up to a gas pump, the driver asks the attendant "can you swirl them?"
Man leaning out of a car talking to another says "I figure, the sooner the oil reserves are used up, the sooner we'll put all these fossil fuel problems behind us."
A 6 panel cartoon, each poking fun at fossil fuel dependency
man drives past a gas sign with his eyes bugging out of his head. where the prices should be it says "MARKET PRICE"
a man presents a hat to another man filling up his gas tank. the first man says "a white maga ten gallon cowboy hat- a free gift from president trump that more than compensates for the temporary increase in gas prices". tag at the b ottom reads: purchased by the u.s. goft from trump industries. made in china. do not wear in rain.

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Cartoonists Corner: Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow

Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow talk about how they hustled their way into cartooning alongside Matt Groening and Linda Barry, the struggles of delivering political satire in today’s world and their personal experiences with the transition from print to the web.
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Hot Ideas for the 2020s

Tired of strangers in the cafe giving you dirty looks while you’re on your cell trying to be heard over the noise of the cappuccino machine? In the middle of a Zoom meeting when the poet at the next table suddenly spills their latte on your laptop? Imagine a soundproof, clear rectangular cubicle where anyone can go to make telephone calls, isolated from the eavesdropping of a bunch of unemployed actors and overcaffeinated retirees. Who wouldn’t like a private, quiet spot to conduct important or intimate conversations? A savvy entrepreneur could start the Phone Booth™ business by putting cubicles on urban street corners, or inside coffee shops, malls, airports and other noisy high traffic areas and charging a nominal fee to pay for the booths’ installation and upkeep, say 25 cents for every three minutes of use, payable in some sort of digital token. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?
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