With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.
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Baslim the begger
said, about 3 years ago
Really, it’s easy, just put windmills in front of all the tv/radio blowhards, and you’ve got energy!
Yekatman
said, about 3 years ago
Wow, Toles in color!
jaxaction said, about 3 years ago
yeah color!!! O is lQQKin for “clean”coal under that dirt….he may find the 20 trillion reagan hid when he was in the whyte house.
Tom Ciborowski said, about 3 years ago
What’s up with the color ‘toon? Its been a while, so its time to say: FLAT TAX!!! I’m not quite sure how taxing airless tires will do anything, but a bunch of folks are keen on it. Cheers!
Adam Sperry said, about 3 years ago
Obama needs to stop with all of ‘his’ ‘new’ ideas. Warming over the Bush II admin was not what we signed up for in electing Obama.
Corosive Frog
said, about 3 years ago
Sooky Rottweiler says: (digging) never quite figured why nobody ever thought of using dogs in mines… (keeps digging)
Jade
said, about 3 years ago
Ooo. Color.
And that’s a cute Michelle. And we’re wearing the same hairstyle omg!
SuperGriz said, about 3 years ago
Flat tax = regressive tax.
Meanwhile, we waited too long. It’s over.
annamargaret1866 said, about 3 years ago
Sooky, Isadora and Rebecca ask, are you sure you want to be so far underground that ore can be extracted?
Harleyquinn
said, about 3 years ago
Flat Tax is what we had. Get rid of the 16th amendment. and put in the FAIR TAX. Oh I give the Prez some props for the bone he is throwing. I am sure he is hoping the environmental wackos will shoot down the ideas. But I do not believe he is going far enough.
W(ar).Crime said, about 3 years ago
^Here we go again! No more tax talk unless you’re talking about rolling back the Reagan tax cuts!
@Sooky probably the same reason they stopped sending canaries into mine shafts.
Bruce4671 said, about 3 years ago
yeah, it’s to cruel a job for a dog to do, send in the people that are stupid enough to go down there………
W(ar).Crime said, about 3 years ago
It used to be a good living Bruce. Not sure about today though.
And lay off the roids!
Bruce4671 said, about 3 years ago
Dude, I got those from DRIVIN’ 7 INCH SPIKES WITH A 10LB HAMMER! and toting 100 lb. sacks of sugar through the woods. No drugs for ME. Well, maybe a little herb now and again.
I imagine it’s still a pretty good living. I know we hauled a lot of coal out of them hills on the railroad. But, I’ve seen how you get down to the digging and to me you would have to be just plain crazy to take that ride. But, I learned a long time ago you do what you have to do. When yer dumb ya gotta be tough……… ;0))
comyics said, about 3 years ago
A way to eliminate Gas and tires.
Nase builds flying cars. Cars run on electricity.
Electricity powered by windmills surround the shoreside states from wind blown by tides and open sea.
Cost cut. Emission cuts. and instead of your live’in saying, “Get gas and make sure your tires are aired up”, can say, “Is your vehicle charged”.
Less work, less cost, less pollution.
(Edit) Why is Montana suited for a clean coal industry? With a demonstrated reserve base of 120 billion tons, Montana’s coal is, in liquid terms, over one quarter the size of the entire Middle East oil reserve–enough fuel to power every American car for decades. In Montana and across the West, if even a fraction of our reserves were developed and converted to liquid fuel, we could greatly reduce the oil we now import from unfriendly and unstable countries. Or, if we moved toward a gasification program for generating electric power with IGCC plants, we could substantially reduce emissions from the utility industry.
http://governor.mt.gov/hottopics/faqsynthetic.asp