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This cartoon overstates the problems of the various energy solutions. Nuclear's complaint is that it blows everything up. Oil's complaint is that it sends outrageous pollutants into the sky. Coals complaint is that it traps miners and ultimately kills them. The joke is that wind's complaint is that it is an eye sore. The contrast between the 4 complaints makes wind energy's complain appear far more pale than the others. The author is obviously critiquing people who argue that wind is problematic because those people are overlooking the flaws of the energy systems already in place.
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This cartoon satirizes President Obama because in his 2008 election he campaigned on the slogan, "Change" but doesn't appear to have a path to change. This cartoon incorporating a biblical allusion to Mosses as Obama leads the business people to the promise land of alternative energy. Obama claimed he was going to free the United States of oil dependency but the joke is made when the business man says, "but there's no bridge" because there isn't any political framework to make a complete switch to alternate energy so Obama's words are hollow. 
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