Blame Game

For the past couple months now, certain dimmer members of our society have blamed President Biden for the out of control rise in gas prices.

SPOILER ALERT, he had nothing to do with it. The President doesn't have a big lever in the Oval Office that he pulls to raise and lower the price of gas. In reality, it's dependent on dozens of factors, such as oil and refining costs, production levels, distribution, taxes and more.

Thankfully, gas prices have actually started coming down in recent weeks. Even though Biden had nothing to do with it, one would think that the doorknobs who believe he caused prices to rise would assume he was also responsible for lowering them as well, right?

Wrong! Now that prices are falling, they're correctly assigning the cause to various fiscal elements.

So let's see if I have this straight— according to these wingnuts, HIGH gas prices are totally Biden's fault, LOW ones are due to economic indicators. Sigh...

It's A Gas!

Saw this as I was out and about in the lovely torrential December rain today. Gasoline priced at under two dollars a gallon! A dollar ninety five! Can you imagine such a thing!

"Now that's a price I haven't seen in a lonnng time. A long time."

I don't know what exactly's causing the price to plunge. Bump in production? Presidential decree? Supply and demand? Aliens? Evil worldwide cabal controlling the economy? Time travel? 

Whatever the cause, I hope it keeps it up. Because it's really gonna be painful when it goes back up to $3.25. Which it eventually will.

Gaspar Gassman

Imagine walking out to the kitchen in the middle of the night, turning on the light and seeing one of these sitting on the floor, spewing noxious gas out of every orifice.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.
Here's the original sketch of Gaspar. Pretty much the same, except I tried to make the gas jets a little less cartoony than they are here.