Prices are rising, so people will have to pay more. That's the way markets work. We should not be using public resources to subsidize our driving habits. And even if there is no national emergency, it is the taxpayers who will have to pay in the end to replenish the reserve. Yes, you can find silly ones, some with violence and others that are not really worth publishing.
Cartoons have a way of telling a story, sometimes controversial, sometimes the out and out truth.
You can bank on the fact that everyone who reads them is being educated to some degree. You can count on them to bring truth to a point that the cartoonist is trying to make. For examples, try reading Hagar the Horrible, For Better or For Worse, Mother Goose and Grimm and, yes, Doonesbury. But the one I would like to refer everyone to is Beetle Bailey. Because the Nov. 6 cartoon was one of the best.