Mike Thompson's toon today - Priceless!

[Bozita]

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Mike has a blog at the Detroit Free Press. Some of the reader comments are also priceless.
http://www.freep.com/article/20101013/BLOG24/101012095/The-Chevy-Volt-A-baby-step

[hedgehog]

1. Which raises the question - if we didn't have a huge Defense

establishment to guard our access to Middle eastern oil, would we need the Middle Eastern oil?

[TygrBright]

2. Go away!!! You're NOT SUPPOSED TO ASK questions like that! n/t

[Doctor_J]

3. Impertinent remarks like that are the fodder for Tom Tomorrow

What are you, a woodchuck?

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

4. I believe it costs something like $400 to get a gallon of gas to Afghanistan

Doesn't seem like a good return on the investment, does it?

[tavalon]

11. Careful

You can get put on the no-fly list for questioning the military industrial complex.

I'm only half joking and the answer to your question is we would have a lot less need for it.

[DirkGently]

18. Bam. Well done.

[pnorman]

5. Thanks for that!

[gratuitous]

6. Motor vehicle travel is incredibly subsidized

Hidden costs are everywhere, and jack up the price of practically everything you can imagine. If a product is transported to market, some part of its price is dedicated to those big, fat slabs of asphalt all over the country, the vehicles on them, and the oil it takes to make it all run. I don't know what the solution might be, but a good start would be anything that doesn't look like more of the same.

[txlibdem]

7. Love it!

We need to stop paying for the world's oil access.

Right after that we should close down all our bases in stable regions.

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

:thumbsup:

[JDPriestly]

9. Wonder how much petroleum is needed to maintain

and run a ship like that and to fuel the aircraft that land and depart from it.

[Erose999]

12. The ship itself runs on nuclear. But I would imagine those planes use the hell out of some gas.

[Lost4words]

13. lots of lubrication, oil, grease, hydraulic fluid, would be interesting to know

BTW kick out the jams, MC5!

:hi:

[Ikonoklast]

14. Well, the carrier would be nuclear, but

the DoD is the single biggest user of refined petroleum products on the planet Earth.

The military has a vested interest in access to oil...no oil, no ability to wage war.

A vicious cycle, that Big Oil and military contractors never want to see broken...and we get to pay for it all, in more ways than one.

[Lorien]

10. K & R

The truth is infuriating and mind bendingly absurd.

[The Uncola]

15. The disconnect...

... even when you point it out to Regressives, doesn't even phase them. Cognitive dissonance means never having to notice your own hypocrisy.

[femrap]

16. Those repugnants

love their war and destruction toys.

[BrklynLiberal]

17. K&R..for more repuke hypocrisy....