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What?
Duh!
Bill Waterson authored Calvin & Hobbes, and this is a panel from that comic strip.
The captioner is humorously stating that Bill Waterson is the reason gas prices are rising, simply because Calvin asked his dad for an idea for a slogan for his school’s Traffic Safety Week.
Calvin responded with, “Thanks dad. I’ll go ask mom.”
Thank You Ford for the explanation. It is good to see some people have more intellect then just to say, “Duh!”
lol, he’s just mad cuz I kept him from saying, “First”
Yes! I love Calvin and Hobbes. I don’t know what gas costs in the US, though.
oh, it’s almost halfway to the price mentioned by calvin’s dad.
in comparison to other strips, (I know you probably don’t care about what I am about to say) Calvin (last name withheld) and Hobbes had a very short run. In a way, though, that’s what made it greater than the other classics. It didn’t hog the paper for 20+ years, it didn’t make ANY stupid jokes, (name one, I dare you) and the art work is plain awesome. Waterson was considerate; he stopped the strip and gave others an actual chance to run their own thing, which is more than can be said for that dumb family circus and the painfully stupid Mark Trail.
Yeah, I am also a huge fan of Pearls before Swine.
What state are you in? I’m in OR and it’s $3/gallon here (just barely hit 3 too) which is funny because we have to pay people to pump our gas, but its cheaper than people who pump their own.
You’re paying $8 per gallon of petrol over there? Here in the UK, it costs around £1.20 per litre. That’s around £5.45 per gallon, which is around $8.40 so I guess it’s around the same.
However, I have a feeling that when you say you’re paying $8, you’re exaggerating. Sadly, I am not lying about the UK prices…
It’s never been $8. It’s more like $2.50 over here. The comic was just a hyperbole.
But oh my god, you actually pay $8 a gallon? Damn…
Yeah. Costs around £50 to fill up most cars. That’s over $77.
Of course big cars cost much more…
And the entirety of the UK is just about the size of California and has much more integrated public transportation.
That’s not really an issue. A 20-mile commute to work is 20 miles no matter whether you live in Russia or Liechtenstein. Longer journeys will often be made by aeroplane no matter where you live.
The UK’s rail network is good, but extremely expensive. If I wanted to go from London (south east England) to Manchester (north west England) tomorrow, the return ticket could cost me over £400 (around $620).
Holy hell!
That’s an exaggeration.
But either way, transportation really is more expensive here.
What’s an exaggeration?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8340561.stm
Also, specifically London to Manchester: http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6162/trainsg.jpg
(And, of course, going first class costs more.)
which rail were you on? I went from derby (East Midlands) to Ludlow (south west) return for about 30-40 quid… (outside of peak time BTW) so yes I’d say that you’re exaggerating/being fed a load of crap.
Yes, cheaper journeys and offers exist.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6162/trainsg.jpg
My yearly season ticket for my train journey to work costs over £7,000. Now that’s expensive.
No one commutes from London to Manchester every day though… the tube network in London is pretty decent… better than the god damn buses we have in Australia anyway
Yes I know no-one would commute 200 miles. I’ve simply been making the point that the rail network in the UK is good, but it can be expensive – it’s possible for some journeys to cost hundreds of pounds (http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6162/trainsg.jpg) and some can cost even more (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8340561.stm).
‘No one commutes from London to Manchester every day though’
People do in my firm.
Where the trains cost an absolute fortune to travel on (my yearly season ticket for the train is about £7k)
Damn… for that price here you could make monthly payments on a new car, pay for insurance, and pay for gas. The only thing that wouldn’t cover is parking, which can get expensive downtown, but most of the time your company has it’s own parking.
I commute into central London from the West Country and my firm doesn’t have parking at any of its offices…
This is why most of the cares over there have 1.0 – 1.3 Litrer motors, as compared to the US average of 3.0 or so, with a range from 1.6 – 5.7 being normal. If gas ever gets as high here as it is there, get ready to see all the V-8 engines on our highways disappear quick.
Our average today is around £1.74 per gallon, with the West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska paying the highest prices (around £2 per gallon). Mind you, that’s for regular (87 octane) summer blend. Prices will spike higher this weekend for the Labor day holiday, then again the week after as we transition to the fall blend.
OTOH, your gallons have five quarts, so you’re not quite to 8 USD / US gallon yet.
But those big gallons must come in handy when buying beverages, eh?
Um, aren’t there always four quarts to a gallon? Part of the nature of “quart”ers.
Never mind, I checked the liter/gallon conversion. The math is a bit off.
I did the maths with imperial gallons, rather than metric.
darth vader didn’t like our use of such a comparably non destructive source of energy ( opposed to nuclear energy) so he raised the prices hoping to spawn a few extra nuclear power plant faiures! ftw oh and calvin ftw as well!
oops, no caps, awaits arrival of spelling& grammer nazis, from the ministry of silly walks…
^that is what it is.
First I laughed, then I calculated, then I stopped stopped laughing
DAMMIT WATTERSON you Crazy Bastard!!!!
XD still love Hobbes tho
This is VERYdemotivational.
I’m going to People of WalMart now.
THE FIEND!
The only reason we would pay $8 a gallon would be inflation over about 35-40 years assuming average of 3% per year.
OR we just start running out of oil. But you totally forgot about that, assuming we have unlimited resources of every f**king thing. And that applies to most people, which is why we’re going to pay dearly for our ignorance.
Or oil companies, despite being obligated to work around the mass consumption of oil that is a limited supply, could just start charging and no one could do anything about it?
You’re forgetting that in America, nothing is accomplished without cash. Which also means, he who has the green controls the scene. And the rest of us? We’re stuck worrying about talentless hacks on tv and their lives, instead of rioting like we ought to do.
did you know that off of california alone there are enough resources to power the whole world for 2 weeks?
Congratulations! How wonderful it must be to be able to see the future with such clarity. You know exactly how much oil there is and when we are going to run out. You also must be the most perceptive person in history as well since you seem to know what most people are thinking as well.
The reason we are paying $3.00 a gallon now is because stupid people seem to think its fun punishing people and retarding the advance of civilization as a whole by forcing the restriction of drilling. They care more about 1 square mile of desolate land in the middle of hundreds of thousands of square miles of desolate land rather than lowering the cost of food so a poor family might be able to afford dinner. Energy affects the price of everything and is compounded throughout the economy. The more value added processes in manufacturing and producing goods and services the more that cost is magnified. I’d much rather someone be able to afford food for their family, or gas for their car so they can earn a living than save less than 1% of a giant nature preserve. The ironic thing is, when a drill site is done producing the company has to return the land to its former state so it would only be temporary.
I am not an environmentalist, I am a humanist. I don’t believe in denying people use of natural resources to improve their lot in life. Yes, we will run out of oil one day that will force us to change and adapt, just like we have throughout history. It’s nothing new. I just HATE when a small group of people try and force change on everyone, the tyranny of the minority. So feel free if you want to lower your standard of living and pay more for everything, just don’t drag the rest of us with you.
This is not about being an environmentalist. Or about being a humanist. It’s about being A F**KING MORON.
We both know for sure that oil is a limited resource. So there is almost a certainty the price of oil will rise, given our willingness to adapt different solutions.
I’m saying we should all live in a f**king national park. I’m saying that doing blindly the first simplest thing leads to dire consequences.
In engineering, the only real principle is “get s**t done”. Your actions depend on what is your goal. If your goal is to make this one generation survive, then use all the energy you want.
A bike runs on fat and saves you money. A car runs on money and makes you fat.
I love it when people start calling other people names, it just shows how poorly their side of an argument is going.
Life is built upon doing the simplest thing to achieve a goal. It’s called efficiency and our entire way of life is built upon it. If you want a different outcome change the goal, not the method. People don’t invent machines to make life more cumbersome and laborious.
There is no possible way for humans to use all the energy the earth and the sun provide. Just because we are using fossil fuels now doesn’t automatically doom future generations.
Using a car doesn’t make you fat, being a lazy sack makes you fat. I go to something called a gym and lift weights and run to maintain a healthy body weight. I am not going to ride my bike 40 miles a day to and from work, you can if you want.
LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDD NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Oh and one more thing: I’m not the one who throws numbers about the next 30 years. So don’t give me this s**t about being the one who claims to be able to predict the future with such f**king clarity.
All I did was adjust the price for inflation for 30 years, you seem to know we are going to run out before then, again I applaud your clairvoyance.
On the other hand, if the gas prices are high people might start considering buying more fuel efficient cars. Or using the car only when necessary. This way we’ll have more time to think about a future alternative before we run out of oil. While maybe having less oil spills along the way, if we would spend more effort in checking up instead of just expanding.
Since the inception (cue music) of CAFE standards Americans, on average, drive MORE not less. It’s not about fuel efficiency. Most of our major cities are designed around readily available cheap personal transportation. They are not compact and vertical, they are spread out.
In my city, Denver, we are adding 30 miles of Light Rail at a cost of over $1Billion. We can’t build subways through solid bedrock either. Public transportation is not a cost effective, viable option at this point.
If you artificially increase the cost of petroleum products you will succeed in 1 thing guaranteed. The quality of life for every single individual will decrease.
If you are looking to destroy a country or prevent one from developing, restrict the use of energy or make it so expensive they can’t afford it in the first place.
As far as spills go, we don’t have very many. Considering how many tankers go in and out of port every day, and how many drilling rigs there are, accident rarely every occur. The problem is, when they do occur they are spectacular in fashion.
I would love nothing more than to read about someone solving the world’s energy problems. I would be the first to endorse a newer, cheaper, abundant, clean energy source. Just don’t force crap on us that won’t work or is 10 times as expensive.
Gas prices are at around 7$ a gallon in Belgium acording to my calculation. And while it’s not ideal I don’t think the country is ‘destroyed’ because of it. Then again maybe we need to drive less far.
BTW: I wasn’t talking about a sudden artificial increase at all.
And yes, CAFE did cause Americans to drive more, but you should get your points straight cause even though it caused people to drive more that didn’t outweigh the benefits.
And while it might be true that the media always turns everything into a huge show. I don’t think it would have hurt BP to plan in advance. Then again I don’t know anything about solving oil spills, so I don’t know what’s possible and what isn’t.
But I’m pretty sure just dilling holes and using all resources right away isn’t the durable long-term plan they need to come up with.
I wouldn’t believe you can draw many meaningful parallels between Belgium and the United States. The dynamics of each countries economy, size, and population make it difficult at best. The Continental United States is nearly the same size as Europe with a population density of nearly 1/3. It would be interesting to see what the mean price of goods and services are compared to the mean household income. You already pay over 2x as much for gas, then again, I doubt Belgian cities are very similar to the urban sprawl of the US. It literally takes me an hour to get from one side of the city to the other with no traffic.
Point of clarification: we’re not running out of oil. Chances are, we’ll *never* run out of oil.
What we ARE running out of, and quickly, is *economically retrievable* oil.
Why we should get off of using fossil fuels for energy is so that we still have something economical left to industrially produce polymers (plastics, etc.).
I could be wrong but I thought the distillates for plastics was different than gasoline and diesel.
I am slightly less worried about that because we can make artificial polymers, we have yet to make artificial gas.
Actually, oil has been made in the laboratory and then converted to gasoline. It takes about 21 days under constant heat and pressure to make oil from any carbon-based source. It is just very expensive. It only took so long for fossil-based to make oil because of the ever-changing temps and pressure of the Earth.
Breaking iso-octane, etc., into ethylene, etc., isn’t difficult. Given enough time in atmosphere, it’ll get there and then to carbon dioxide on its own.
As for natural gas, converting that into ethylene will be more difficult. Now that they’ve figured out how to get methane from clathrates, natural gas prices shouldn’t be a concern anymore; atmospheric carbon, however, given the amount of clathrates around, that could be trouble.
too long… did not read
Or if you come to the UK, where we pay that already!
I think about this comic strip to keep it in perspective. “Oh man, the price of gas went up again. Oh well, at least it’s not eight bucks a gallon.”
He may have cursed us to rising gas prices, but still one of the greatest men who walked this earth…
How gets a crappy Bill Waterson cartoon to be a demotivational poster? Can anyone explain to me?
Blasphemy! Calvin and Hobbes is, by far, the BEST comic in existence!
Well, personally I like Garfield better, but Calvin and Hobbes is pretty good too ^_^
Garfield is awesome.
Calvin and Hobbes beat Garfield anyday you like:
“Either I’m still asleep or he’s play classical music at 65 RPM at 4 Am”
“Scientific progression goes BOINK?”
(while sat on the roof) “She’ll give up looking in a half-hour”
My two favorites of all time:
(Calvin is selling “great ideas” to his mom for 25 cents)
Mom: “Okay, here. What’s your great idea?”
Calvin: “Buy some more!”
Mom: “I’m getting aother great idea right now.”
Calvin: “Me too. See ya.”
And…
Calvin: “One of the joys of being a kid is that experiences are new and therefor more intense.
“For example, I’m about to stick my nose in a jar of mustard and inhale deeply! Let’s see what it’s like.
“WHOOOOOOOP
“See, whed you’re oder, you dake your sinuses fo granded.”
Ooooh, I hope it does…nasty, evil, crazy drivers.
One less car!
Yeah unlike that bicycle with the handlebars/seat/tires/pedals made from petroleum based products and the metal from mining. Yeah, whatever.
I read this very comic recently and I was like “WTF. Calvin and Hobbes has predicted the future.” And now there’s a poster for it. Thank you.
You mean like how people spend money and then say the only way to get out of debt is to spend even more money that we dont even have.
that was supposed to be replied to coaxin
OMG, I love Calvin and Hobbes- total win!!!!
“Be Careful, or Be Roadkill!” should totally be on state licence plates.
No one reads Garfield for Garfield; it’s all about Jon Arbuckle.
THAT’S the real star.
Bicyclists have all the same rights AND responsibilities as those driving in cars, here in Iowa. Meaning that they have to stop at stop lights, not pull up beside stopped cars at said stop lights to go around, and signal their turns. One of the problems with this is that Typically, they disobey these rules because there’s no consequences. For example, I have NEVER seen a bicyclist signal their turns with the proper hand signals. And I seriously doubt that any of them have been ticketed for it. The obvious solution is to force all bicyclists to register at the Department of Transportation!
I see a lot of cars not using the turn signs (even though it’s much more convenient for them and they don’t have to give up emergency braking or stability on a bumpy road to do it), or running red lights (which is much more dangerous when done in a car – at least I haven’t heard of anyone killed by a reckless cyclist).
In many European countries there are a s**tload more cyclists than anywhere in the US. And yes, we do go around the rules sometimes. People get used to it, and it doesn’t have a significant impact in the number of accidents. That’s why the authorities don’t bother with it. In my country, it’s legal for a cyclist to pull up beside stopped traffic. And even barring that, a bike lane solves that particular “problem” for everyone’s satisfaction. It’s all about making the streets viable for every form of transportation. It’s not that hard to do, if you put your mind to it.
Also, considering the fact that the US is the single largest oil importer and is #1 in obesity rates worldwide, I think more cyclists on your roads isn’t the risk you should be worried about.
I have seen a lot of cars doing those things (well, except for pulling up beside stopped traffic – which is, in my country, legal for a cyclist, but even barring that, bike lanes solve that particular “problem” for everyone’s satisfaction). It’s just that those things are much more dangerous when done in a car. At least I haven’t heard of anyone killed by a reckless cyclist. Have you? Authorities are not stupid – well, they are, but not so much as to introduce a lot of bureaucratic bullsh*t which won’t actually save lives, just make life harder for everyone involved.
Also, since the US is the biggest importer of oil and is leading obesity rates worldwide, I don’t think more cyclists on your roads is something you should be worried about.
“At least I haven’t heard of anyone killed by a reckless cyclist. ”
What planet are you from? Idiots on bikes are killed all the time due to their own recklessness. Not that I think that should change or anything, the less stupid people we have making babies, the better. By all means, keep riding your bikes in the roads. But don’t get on with this “we have as much right to the road as cars do!” when you and your bike and flattened by my SUV.
And the guy’s name is double-T WATTERSON!!! Sheesh…
I’ve read this comic, and if you’d shown this panel in context with the rest of it, you’d see that these words are solely the opinion of Calvin’s father and not of Watterson himself.