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This cartoon is not intended to make fun of people who are having trouble making ends meet because of high gas prices (taken as a percentage of income, the poor are, after all, hit the hardest). Rather, I'm addressing the mentality that we can consume with reckless abandon, and then find it somehow unfair or surprising when prices go up. Also, I liked the idea of casting Hummer owners in the role usually occupied by people earnestly trying to save large ocean mammals.

Large Vehicle Owners Hold Gas Station Vigil

PS - Regarding last week's strip, reader Tom helpfully points out the Snopes entry on the origins of the myth of NASA and the sun standing still.