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Gasoline is at record highs but the price of crude oil is lower than it was a year ago.

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We, here in the rustbelt, are wallowing in the cheapest gas in the country.  We water our lawns and splash each other with it.

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A memorial service was held for Ken Lay yesterday in Houston, the same city where he was convicted 6 weeks ago.  He insisted on his innocence then.  Evidently he's had the last word. 

If a defendant dies in Texas before he can appeal his conviction the verdict is dismissed.  Ken Lay is a free man now, in more ways than one according to Bloomberg columnist, Ann Woolner. 

"And so, Lay's death erases the criminal conviction that it
took the federal government 4½ years to win…  The principle is called "abatement ab initio," the Latin
portion meaning "from the beginning." …  So when it comes to Lay, it's as if the Justice Department
never established a special Enron Task Force, never deployed
armies of lawyers and agents to determine his role in Enron's
collapse, never strong-armed Enron employees to give evidence,
never won an indictment, and, finally, never spent months
persuading a jury to convict him."

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Sorry for the delayed cartoon posting.  All my illegal immigrant workers are taking the day off.  And no American is willing to do this kind of work.

You may have heard the price of gas is up.  Senate Republicans have offered you $100 toward your next fill-up.  I'll take 85 dollars worth and a 12 pack. 

Not only is the offer goofy, it's cheap.  Remember the $50 rebate Jimmy the Cardigan offered in 1977?  According to the Economic History Services website, that $50 would have been worth $155.81 in 2004. 

That's as much research as I'm willing to do.  If you need the 2006 figure, go find yourself a Mexican.

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The government will require us to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol annually by the year 2020.

I like the term corn squeezin's.  That's what Snuffy Smith called his moonshine in the cartoon strip by the late great Uncle Fred Lasswell.

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I'm in my Cartoons With Voices Coming Out of Buildings period.

Judging by the president's state of the union speech, he's in his Green Period.  After working diligently for tax breaks to encourage oil companies to remove oil from the earth (as if $70 a bbl isn't encouragement enough), President Green Jeans says we're addicted to the stuff. He wants to explore alternative energy sources.