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Sep 04, 2009 21:10


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irresponsibility, greed

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orangepeel September 5 2009, 02:34:29 UTC
This cartoon reminds me of The Magic Pudding

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xxrancid_punkxx September 5 2009, 02:55:57 UTC
The fat guy is obviously not American. If he were, he wouldn't be giving the little man anything. Instead he would have a long, rambling, hyperventilatey speech about how he's protecting the little guy's rights by not giving him any help.

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pacotelic September 5 2009, 03:31:34 UTC

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i September 5 2009, 10:29:50 UTC
has this been posted? damn good toon.

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pacotelic September 5 2009, 14:31:01 UTC
It was a little passe, as it was produced under the ethanol boom of 2007-2008.

As the Italian says below, yes, ethanol had unintended consequences. Not only did it skew the markets against food prices, it also required more energy to make than was retrieved in burning as fuel. It served two, vital interest of the American electorate, however: cleaner emissions and farm subsidy patronage.

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squidb0i September 5 2009, 23:51:33 UTC
To be clear, corn ethanol had unintended consequences.

The farm lobby and Big Ag like Monsanto talked the Bush administration into supporting corn, and the market followed blindly.
The same money into cellulosic eth would have yielded a sustainable and scalable fuel source from plant waste by now.

Yet another way they fucked us over. =/

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syndicalist September 5 2009, 11:39:54 UTC
The white man's burden of feasting on the planet and giving crumbs to the little guy...?

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redheadrat September 5 2009, 13:53:47 UTC
It fails to show another black guy pumping oil and minerals into the white guys domain and living in opulence surpassing the white guy.

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redheadrat September 5 2009, 16:10:22 UTC
Many regimes like that nowdays?

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syndicalist September 5 2009, 16:13:17 UTC
Besides Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Israel?

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