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Drill Obama, Drill
Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love BIG OIL
posted May 11, 2010
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As a dude who grew up under the black mushroom cloud of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in the State Capitol Juneau, Alaska and watched first hand as the oil giant weaseled its way out of costly cleanup duty (step dad just recently testified before congress on behalf of commercial fisherman) I expect more of the same from our friendly earth-killing/green-washing friends at British Petroleum. Hey, Corporations are people too right? So why not get together and decorate their non-person face(s) with hatchet wounds? You can! How? By implementing governmental regulations that are REAL and ENFORCED.
Inspiration for this week's cartoon: here
Comments [33]
 by Thorax O'Tool on 5/11/2010 @ 3:58am | Walbert! Nooooo! Sammy! Octavian!
...izzat Doomafudge on the whale with Stowe? This is even more tragic for my characters because (unlike Logjam or Stowe) this actually would be their native habitat. The nature of this strip sucks, but RR you have outdone yourself on this one. Poor Octavian. What did he ever do to deserve this? I just hope Drusilla got away, since I don't see her among the casualties. |
by Thorax O'Tool on 5/11/2010 @ 4:26am | ... I'll reserve my opinion of BP for a later date, as I can't exactly say it without using too many four letter words for a "family site". |
 by fredo on 5/11/2010 @ 6:50am | I like to print out your cartoons to post at the office but this one I'm afraid might burn out my printer. Nice work RR |
 by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 7:58am | Think the small child exhausted on the whale is supposed to be Barrett. The Doomafudge crew was probably touring the rig on a class fieldtrip when the explosion hit. The tacomic was drawn just moments before that terrible tragedy. Circle of life. I'm still OK though. The pile of money from the energy companies will help me deal with my pain and other folks loss. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 8:10am | My eyes are still dollar signs though... maybe I can afford corrective surgery for that now. |
 by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 5/11/2010 @ 10:26am | Where are the huge piles of stuffed animals so that the people the perished don't file law suits? |
 by ElectricElliot on 5/11/2010 @ 10:59am | So sad...really hits home. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 11:10am | what is the absorption rating for stuffed animals? Maybe we can kill two birds with one slime-covered stone. |
 by Altered Chords on 5/11/2010 @ 11:17am | I feel like a smoker must feel. I'm trying to quit driving but it's just too damn hard. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 11:24am | somewhere i saw a chart with 29 years left of earth oil at present consumption ? |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 12:08pm | really is nobody's fault...
BP, Transocean and Halliburton blame each other for Deepwater Horizon spill..Executives from three oil giants point fingers at one another under tough questioning from US senate committee www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/... |
by Altered Chords on 5/11/2010 @ 12:28pm | We got hip to the limited supply in the 70's via these Tower of Power lyrics:
There's only so much oil on the ground Sooner or later there won't be much around Tell that to your kids while you driving downtown That there's only so much oil on the ground Can't cut loose without that juice Can't cut loose without that juice If we keep on like we doing things for sure Will not be cool - It's a fact We just ai't got suffiecient fuel There's only so much oil in the ground Sooner or later there won't be none around Alternate sources of power must be found Cause there's only so much oil in the ground There's only so much oil in the earth It's a fact of life - for what it's worth Something every little boy and girl should know since birth That there's only so much oil in the ground There's no excuse for our abuse No excuse for our abuse We just assume that we will not Exceed the oil supply But soon enough the world will watch the wells run dry. |
by Altered Chords on 5/11/2010 @ 12:34pm | So we've spent the past 40 years doing nothing but increasing our consumption.
Are we neanderthals? |
 by jenyum on 5/11/2010 @ 12:37pm | Well, no worries. I'm sure you're hard at work on a giant cartoon box, or a big cartoon pile of garbage you can shoot at it. Failing that, perhaps drop an anvil on it and light some tnt.
I'm going to take my e-reader to Starbucks, where I can drown my sorrows in delicious, frosty food science while I read about the latest in medieval oil leak technology. |
 by The Jinxmedic on 5/11/2010 @ 12:39pm | Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis was around a whole lot longer than Homo Sapiens Sapiens, so to answer your question, no- we are not Neanderthals - not yet by a long shot, as we have much emotional growing to do before have anywhere as near a possibility of similar longevity. If we go into space in a real way, it's possible. Otherwise, forget it. Write us off. |
by Altered Chords on 5/11/2010 @ 12:56pm | Space journeys powered by something other than petroleum. What have you come up w/ jinx? |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 1:09pm | Hey I read recently that Humans and Neanderthal did some bump and grind in their lonely caves. Anyone may have as much as 5% Neanderthal in their DNA.
So, There is hope for the pinks! |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 1:15pm | NUKE it!
trueslant.com/juliaioffe/2010/05/04/nuke... |
by The Jinxmedic on 5/11/2010 @ 1:52pm | I'm thinking Heinlein's Zinc Reaction-Mass drive....
...there's environmentally friendly for you - no petrochemicals involved whatsoever! |
by Thorax O'Tool on 5/11/2010 @ 3:48pm | Project Orion. No petro fuels needed and according to the math, this pulse engine would be able to theoretically reach 0.08c to 0.1c with normal matter. That's a helluva lot faster than Voyager 1 which is the fastest thing made by man... but chugs along at a mere 0.0006c. |
by jenyum on 5/11/2010 @ 4:17pm | Improbability Drive. A grey whale was spotted in the Mediterranean this week, so maybe they've already tried it. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/11/2010 @ 4:52pm | I would not let BP or any of those corporations anywhere near an improbability drive. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/12/2010 @ 9:22am | As Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Spreads, BP, Halliburton and Transocean Executives Deflect Blame for Spill at Senate Hearings
Oil-spill As thousands of gallons of oil continue to spew daily from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, representatives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton were grilled by lawmakers in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Industry executives from all three corporations began with prepared testimony that involved blaming each other for the explosion and deflecting responsibility for the unfolding environmental and economic disaster. We air excerpts and speak with marine biologist Rick Steiner. For the past week he has been working at the site of the oil spill and on the Louisiana coast, where he collected several samples of the oil washing up ashore. www.democracynow.org/2010/5/12/as_gulf_o... |
by jenyum on 5/20/2010 @ 2:35pm | You can watch the spill on a live webcam now.
live.cnn.com/ (There's an official gubmint link to it but the video only works in IE) Kind of like watching the volcano in Iceland only way more depressing and crazy making. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/20/2010 @ 2:37pm | like colbert says we're closer to having sea-water powered cars.  |
by NineInchNachos on 6/21/2010 @ 8:00am | EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG:
How Much Oil Really Spilled From the Exxon Valdez? June 18, 2010 As politicians and journalists try to make sense of the BP oil disaster, they frequently refer to the 11 million gallons spilled from the Exxon Valdez. Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist and author, explains that it's in fact a disputed figure the media have incorrectly adopted. www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/06/1... |
by fredo on 6/21/2010 @ 8:57am | People interested in the problems associated with peak oil may enjoy this DVD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyHIOg5aHk |
by NineInchNachos on 6/21/2010 @ 1:30pm | people interested in history/politics/current events may enjoy this blog post:
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/06/p... BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL "BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history you find that BP did something even worse to America. They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini." |
by NineInchNachos on 6/28/2010 @ 4:48pm | if this doesn't leave you with that existential feeling I don't know what will. consumerist.com/2010/06/video-stepping-i... some thing is very vvery wrrrrroooooong with us. anyhow, thought it had an eerie similarity to this tacomic. |
 by Non Sequitur on 6/28/2010 @ 10:57pm | Every executive and boardmember of BP along with the president, VP, and every member of his administration and every congress critter with any connection to BP and offshore drilling needs to have a barrel or two of this oil poured down their throats. We need to include any and all previous administrations that helped lead to this included in the oil-down-the-gullet party. There is a special place in hell reserved for these people. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/7/2010 @ 10:02am |
Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJBsjKhRTo |
by NineInchNachos on 4/18/2012 @ 12:48pm | eat em up! www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/... |
by The Jinxmedic on 4/18/2012 @ 12:50pm | Ah, yes. "The Tacomic that killed Daddy's Nut Shot of the Day" forever. |
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