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Friday Funnies

The next generation of electric cars

Henry Payne | 9.25.2009 7:00 AM

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  1. Suki   16 years ago

    LOL and scary true!

  2. Tomcat1066   16 years ago

    Not so much funny as true.

    But Obama wants me to tell you that the car companies will build cars powered by unicorn farts that get a billion miles to the gallon and produces money as exhaust, which will fund all the great programs that Obama has in store for us.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    2016 and still no flying cars? What a gyp.

    (And men's fashion doesn't seem to have advanced much either.)

  4. Suki   16 years ago

    What a gyp.

    That's racism straight up.

  5. comrade   16 years ago

    But Obama wants me to tell you that the car companies will build cars powered by unicorn farts that get a billion miles to the gallon and produces money as exhaust, which will fund all the great programs that Obama has in store for us.

    You racist liar. Obama would never sanction the factory farming of unicorns for their farts.

  6. domoarrigato   16 years ago

    Hey Suki!

    i give it a c+. we cant plug in the electric car because now electricy is banned is a little to much of a comic stetch to be funny.

  7. Tomcat1066   16 years ago

    comrade:

    Obama wanted me to tell you that it wasn't the factory farming of unicorn farts, but farts would be harvested through a collective barganing agreement reached between the government and the union representing the unicorn interests, the SEIU.

  8. Tomcat1066   16 years ago

    Oh, and calling someone who speaks for Obama racist? That's just racist!

  9. Team America   16 years ago

    I think this one is an exceptionally good choice by the editors, but ten gets you one that next week they'll regress to the mean and pick the most forgettable cartoon they can find.

  10. @   16 years ago

    Replace the cord with a key-winder on the roof and you've got comedy gold, bay-bee!

  11. Xeones   16 years ago

    Not funny, though i did chuckle grimly.

  12. Hottie16   16 years ago

    Convoluted

  13. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    domoarrigato,

    Nothing's a stretch in the year 2015.

  14. Kolohe   16 years ago

    Replace the cord with a key-winder on the roof and you've got comedy gold, bay-bee!

    Absolutely. It doesn't make sense to still have an electric car with a power cord & plug if there are no power plants.

    Alternative: The Flinstone's car.

  15. proud libitard   16 years ago

    Obama wants you to bike to work

  16. Nick   16 years ago

    The fact that there's no Mr. Fusion on that car just sucks.

  17. Anonymous   16 years ago

    The fact that there's no Mr. Fusion on that car just sucks.

    Do you know how many baby seals are de-boned to manufacture your precious flux capacitor? And what about the displaced habitats of the screaming cockroach? Fascist.

  18. Warren   16 years ago

    Not funny
    Relevant but not poignant
    Artwork only fair

    Grade: C

    Payne always better than Bok

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  20. ibrindle   16 years ago

    ROR

    By two, wear them as electric skates

  21. P Brooks   16 years ago

    By 2016, we'll have perpetual motion cars, constructed of polished upsidaisium, which will cost nothing at all.

    Obama wants us to believe this.

  22. AlfromAlberta   16 years ago

    I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

  23. Brian Lockwood   16 years ago

    Are these Friday Funnies ever actually funny? I'm never impressed.

  24. Paul   16 years ago

    I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

    That's an interesting point...

  25. duster   16 years ago

    I love the Friday Funnies...comments section.

  26. Mike Loughley   16 years ago

    Now where did I leave those dylithium crystals?

  27. Ray Walker   16 years ago

    Wonder when the secret service (aka gestapo) is going to trade in the SUVS and full size sedans for one of these.

  28. N.Y. Times Turtleneck Guy   16 years ago

    I love the Friday Funnies...comments section

    I'll trade you my Fashion & Style Section for your Friday Funnies Comments Section.

  29. Tsu Dho NIhm   16 years ago

    I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies.

    I've been trying to get that point across to them for quite a while now. Considering the inefficiency of our electrical grid, electric vehicles may end up being one huge ecological disaster.

  30. Plant Immigration Rights Suppo   16 years ago

    "I believe that to put things in perspective, it is time to rebrand the electric car as "coal powered". That should impress the greenies."

    I love it! Time to take back the language of the debate!

  31. Francesco Sinibaldi   16 years ago

    In a symphony.

    In the light
    of a symphony
    there's a charming
    intention, and
    also that fortune;
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  32. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # Suki | September 25, 2009, 7:50am | #
    # What a gyp.

    # That's racism straight up.

    Are gypsies an official race now? I don't recall that being a selection on the last census form. I'll look for it next time.

  33. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # AlfromAlberta | September 25, 2009, 12:22pm | #

    # I believe that to put things in perspective,
    # it is time to rebrand the electric car as
    # "coal powered". That should impress the
    # greenies.

    Maybe that's the way it is in Alberta, ya Canuck ya, but here in California there's a pretty good mix of natural gas, hydro, nuclear, geothermal, wind and solar electricity flowing around the grid. Electric cars don't care where the electrons come from, so it's rather unfair to brand them as being powered by any particular electron source. Also, well-heeled EV owners can install solar panels and power their cars from the sun alone, not depending on any grid electrons at all. Several owners of the speedy and sexy Tesla Roadster have done just that. Here is the blog of one such fellow:

    http://wildershares.com/solar.php

  34. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    Oh, and I forgot to say that, over the time period that EVs will be available to and embraced by the mainstream (probably a couple of decades), it is very feasible to create solar farms, scattered throughout the desert southwest, which will offset the electricity consumption of all the EVs that the automobile industry can put on the road in the west. Eastern states, like Los Angeles did with the Colorado river, could project infrastructure into the West to tap into our wealth of solar energy. We can produce enough solar energy to run our own cars and those of our eastern neighbors combined, so long as the national grid can accommodate it all. Enhancing the grid might be an excellent infrastructure investment, if we are really serious about alternative energy sources.

  35. abercrombie milano   15 years ago

    My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp. I'm not concerned that Mr. Crumb will go to hell or anything crazy like that! It's just that he, like many types of religionists, seems to take it literally, take it straight...the Bible's books were not written by straight laced divinity students in 3 piece suits who white wash religious beliefs as if God made them with clothes on...the Bible's books were written by people with very different mindsets...in order to really get the Books of the Bible, you have to cultivate such a mindset, it's literally a labyrinth, that's no joke

  36. abercrombie milano   15 years ago

    My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp.

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