i dont get this editorial cartoon...

http://s340.photobucket.com/albums/o347/titanlord1/?action=view¤t=img007.jpg

this is the cartton i dont understand and i have a few questions:

1) are any of the ppl here significant?

2) what is the cartoon about? what point author wants to make?

3) is the auther for or against the issue? or are they making fun of the topic?

thanks to those who help!

Is this homework............? It sounds like it.billbucker

you may think it is but its not

Seems to me that the author is trying to suggest Bush doesn't want alternative energy. Bush being from Texas, and there are...you know? It's not a very good cartoon.TheZ3nMan

so this has nothing to do with political parties? like the liberals or the conservatives? and what are the tar sands whats the benifeit?

What really needs to be explained? If you dont follow the current issues, forget about the Alberta Tar Sands: Dirty Oil thing, and just focus on the groups of people being portrayed. The hippy pulling for alternative energy sources, and the *Texans* or Bush, chasing him away. Bush does not want alternative energy sources. He has his hands in the oil industry, and that would be very... un-good for his means.

Its not an overly deep cartoon... there are way more complex ones out there.

Seems to me that the author is trying to suggest Bush doesn't want alternative energy. Bush being from Texas, and there are...you know? It's not a very good cartoon.TheZ3nMan

bush wasnt born in texas

The cowboys don't directly represent Bush. They just represent the entire oil industry, since most of them are "Southern Cowboys."LukeAF24

[QUOTE="LukeAF24"]The cowboys don't directly represent Bush. They just represent the entire oil industry, since most of them are "Southern Cowboys."MattUD1

Perhaps, but I think most people just want to turn it into that. Presidents are usually directly represented as themselves in political cartoons. I take them as the oil industry as a whole.

whats the similarity between a cowboy and the oil industry? why did they pick cowboys when they could have picked anything else?dragonmaster64

Stereotypical oil exec:

Yee-Haw.