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Editorial Cartoons by Nate Beeler
Showing entries for Category: Energy
Showing entries for Category: Energy
The New Batmobile
 Oh, you know how I love drawing comic book characters! I drew this cartoon for Friday's newspaper, as we're running an extra long editorial on Thursday. Be on the lookout for a local D.C. cartoon in Sunday's print edition -- or you can catch a preview of it on my blog after I've uploaded it. |
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Ethanol's All Wet
 Sorry about the lack of commentary accompanying the cartoons lately. Coloring them has now even taken up the time I used to spend typing up those pithy, oh-so-cerebral observations to which you faithful blog readers have become accustomed. |
Crude Cure
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ANWR
 Time and time again, I've gone over this issue in my own mind, with my editor and with others whose opinions I value, and I still think its irresponsible for government to encourage more domestic drilling without first setting in place a long-term, comprehensive energy policy. Opening up ANWR and allowing off-shore drilling are only stopgap measures that delay making the hard decisions that will truly make us energy independent. All the Republicans -- and the Democrats, frankly -- are offering are weak substitutes for sound policy on an issue of national and economic security. |
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Don't Forget to Yell, 'Timber!'
 If the Democrats succeed in enacting a windfall profits tax on oil companies, it will inevitably backfire. The tax will get passed on to consumers in the form of even higher gas prices, which is the last thing America needs while it slogs through this tough economic spell. Mind you, I've never been a defender of the oil industry, but this isn't just bad business for Exxon Mobil -- it's bad business for ordinary Americans, too. Update: On a whim, I colored the cartoon when I got home tonight. One of these days I'll figure out a way to streamline the coloring process so that I can do color cartoons for the print edition. One of these days... |
Smart Advice
 This cartoon was inspired by three separate stories: Smartphones heeding the call of consumers Apple unveils new iPhone and National average for gas breaks $4 Now, I would love to carry around the new iPhone, looking trendy and geeking out with its GPS, blogging software, cappuccino frothing wand and such, but there's no way I can afford it without being financially reckless. So, while others are strutting their stuff with their handy-dandy, slick smartphones, I'm cursing under my breath at the mysterious beings who are deviously manipulating the nation's gas prices. Nobody seems to know who they are -- I think they're magical gas gnomes. |
Cash Cow Put Out to Pasture
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Global Warming ,
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Auto Industry
 GM is closing four plants while it transitions from producing gas-guzzlers to more fuel-efficient vehicles. It's a good example of how consumer -- not government -- demands can drive change. It's about time U.S. automakers ditched their stagnating business strategies and wholeheartedly embraced innovation. |
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Price of Oil
 I struggled through brush issues on this one -- the bristles seemed to have minds of their own -- and I had to rush it at the end. Nevertheless, I think the idea's solid. I had another cartoon idea specifically about the checked bag fee that I came oh-so-close to picking over this one. I'm hoping I can use it next week. |
Dubya the Explorer
 I used my backup brush on this cartoon, and while I didn't feel completely comfortable inking it, I'm pleased with the way it turned out. I also feel very strongly about the message of this cartoon, as energy independence is one of my pet issues. No politician -- especially our "decider in chief" President Bush -- seems to have the guts to lead the country away from the oil standard. It would certainly entail short-term financial pain for certain sectors of our economy and may drive some businesses to extinction, but the long-term benefits of vigorously spurring development and implementation of an oil alternative outweigh all of it. We need the kind of leadership that helped put the first man on the moon. Unfortunately, modern politicians leave me feeling more cynical each day about America's chances for true energy independence. |
Hillary's Math
 I noticed Hillary Clinton is still having trouble with her basic mathematics skills, so I drew this cartoon. Probably my favorite part is the "A+B=ABBA" written on the chalkboard. It's that kind of quirky detail in other cartoonists' work that often makes me laugh out loud. But, of course, I'm a cartooning geek. |
John McBrain
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John McCain ,
Republicans
 Today's cartoon gave me the chance to give my caricature muscles a good work out. Call it cartoon calisthenics. I haven't drawn John McCain all that much, even though his turkey neck is manna from heaven to cartoonists. On the gas tax issue, I was working the math out in my head ... the federal gas tax is 18.4 cents ... if the tax is suspended and I fill up my car with 10 gallons of gas, I will have saved $1.84. What a deal, huh? |
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Nate Beeler
Editorial cartoons and how they are created, by Nate Beeler, cartoonist for The Washington Examiner. Email Nate at nbeeler@dcexaminer.com.
Editorial cartoons and how they are created, by Nate Beeler, cartoonist for The Washington Examiner. Email Nate at nbeeler@dcexaminer.com.
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