I thought this was a humorous cartoon. It compares our use of fossil fuels to a person addicted to smoking. The smoker realizes smoking is a problem and is harming him, but is addicted, so he won't/can't quit. Similarly, we are addicted to using fossil fuels, and we can't cut our dependency from them.
I thought that this was pretty funny, because I could actually see it happening. A solar tanning-powered tanning bed...a very amusing concept. I could seriously see a shop on a beach that advertised "green" tanning, and it being a huge hit!
A crack at Americans tendency to take everything and make it bigger. We obviously have bigger cars than most of the rest of the world. This cartoon has taken an entirely electric Segway scooter and turned it into something that looks like it could plo
Another entertaining cartoon. This cartoon comments on the price of producing alternative fuels. It jokingly states that people don't even realize that it takes as much energy to produce ethanol and hydrogen as it produces.
I thought this cartoon was kind of cute. The young boy is looking outside of an airplane window to find a reindeer powering the plane. His mom is conveniently reading a news paper article about alternative energy.
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The idea of being 'addicted to oil,' is interesting. I think they used this expression in the Electric Car video, and there were clips of George Bush talking about how we need to break America's addiction to oil.
Oil is something that we understand and are comfortable with. Using oil-based fuel is within our 'comfort zone' as Americans, while other fuels aren't.
However, other fuels would be equally as 'addicting' as oil once we began to use them - look at corn ethanol, for example. Even if corn ethanol were to replace oil the only real difference is that we could produce it here in the US instead of having to import it from overseas. Otherwise, there are debates that ethanol is equally as harmful to the environment and doesn't produce that much energy because it costs so much energy to produce. Plus, for any alternative energy to be really successful, it would have to be used in its own production - for example, corn-powered tractors to harvest corn to make ethanol in an ethanol powered factory. If we are still using oil and coal based fuels to create ethanol and other alternatives, we aren't really ending our 'addiction' to those fuels but instead empowering them.
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