Actually, I’m not sure this is humorous. Whether we’re looking at ethanol, Solyndra, or other green-energy scams that promote corruption and undermine the economy, this is not a laughing matter.
After all, we’re the taxpayers and consumers who are pushing this turkey up the hill.
I’m adding Lisa Benson to my list of good cartoonists. Her monopoly cartoon at this link (the second of the two cartoons) is also disturbingly accurate.
And if you like humor about energy policy, check out these three cartoons.
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drrik +1.
alternative: add a fat-yet-well-heeled passenger labeled ‘crony capitalist’, label the pusher ‘taxpayer’, and have obama telling the guy pushing the car he’s not doing his ‘fair share’. And add a ball and chain to the pusher labeled ‘$15T debt’.
See, we’re all political cartoonists! 🙂
I like the cartoon, but the problem with its layout is that all hills are finite. They eventually end. A better representation might be a car being pushed across a vast dessert with no end in sight or implied, where not only is the sun beating down, but the driver (Presbo) is obviously well rested and refreshed and he is telling the taxpaying pusher that there is just not enough water to go around for him and the additional passengers. And he might be telling him of the more sumptuous and heavier vehicle that they are switching over to up ahead that adds another 5 trillion of weight to the load.
Or perhaps it might be a boat being towed by a swimmer and Presbo is helping add on the addtional weight of chain that he chides the taxpayer for voting for.