I Can’t Get No

Cidu Bill on Jul 31st 2008

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, John Deering, Strange Brew, comic strips, comics, gasoline, humor | 15 responses so far

15 Responses to “I Can’t Get No”

  1. Winter Wallaby Jul 31st 2008 at 12:42 am 1

    I think the horse is gloating because people have replaced it with cars, and now people are regretting it, since they see how expensive gasoline is for their cars. Although this doesn’t make much sense, because horses don’t seem to really enjoy being ridden.

  2. Powers Jul 31st 2008 at 07:03 am 2

    Most horses don’t seem to mind — and they were mostly used to pull wagons and carriages rather than being ridden anyway. The bigger reason it doesn’t make sense is that horses are hardly a replacement, even with gas at $4 a gallon.

  3. Dale Skinner Jul 31st 2008 at 09:20 am 3

    Gaia be praised. If only we’d return to simpler times when the streets ran with horse manure.

  4. Mark in Boston Jul 31st 2008 at 11:07 am 4

    Horses need expensive maintenance all the time, even if you don’t run them. If you don’t have your own pasture, you have to buy hay (at $4.00 a bale around here) and grain. I estimate about $5 a day to feed a horse if it’s just standing around doing nothing; more if you’re actually riding him. One hundred miles a day is the most you’ll get, and of course you’ll need hay and grain supplies at both ends and in the middle. Let’s say $10 per day for enough food to sustain this rate of travel. That’s the cost of 2 and a half gallons of gas to go 100 miles: better than an SUV, worse than a hybrid, much worse than a motorcycle (which is the vehicle most like a horse). Of course as the price of gas goes up, the price of (delivered) hay goes up; it doesn’t bale itself and drive itself to the barn.
    So the horse must be saying “I’m STILL the luxury item.”

  5. Its Justme Jul 31st 2008 at 11:29 am 5

    And horses are **not** carbon emissions free! Algore would not approve.

  6. rabrab Jul 31st 2008 at 12:17 pm 6

    I agree with Mark In Boston that it’s expensive to run a horse, (and hay around here is more than $4.00 a bale, unless you’re buying little bitty bales!) And besides food, there’s shoeing/trimming, and lots of incidental expenses.

    But I’m betting that the cartoonist, like most non-horse owners, **does** think that it would be cheaper to run a horse than an SUV, not that he’s aware that the horse is still the luxury item.

  7. Jim Jul 31st 2008 at 12:44 pm 7

    Well…what I don’t get is: what is the man afraid of doing that would give the horse schadenfreude? Show resentment and anger at high gas prices. I guess that makes sense.

  8. Lola Jul 31st 2008 at 01:10 pm 8

    If he makes eye contact, the equine will….uh… horse laught at him.

  9. Lola Jul 31st 2008 at 01:10 pm 9

    and everyone can laught at how I spell laugh!

  10. Frank Jul 31st 2008 at 09:11 pm 10

    HA HA, HOO HOO, GUFAW, SNORT!

    WHATEVER LOLA WANTS, LOLA GETS!

  11. Ted Aug 1st 2008 at 01:47 am 11

    When autos first came out, a favorite taunt was “Get a horse” The horses are now getting redemption?

  12. Ted Aug 1st 2008 at 01:48 am 12

    Web adress had typo, sooy. Tis um is korect.

  13. Aaron Aug 1st 2008 at 11:26 pm 13

    I’m more confused as to what part of the car he’s pumping the gas into. Is the gas tank in the passenger compartment?

  14. Andrew Aug 2nd 2008 at 04:57 am 14

    Speaking about his car, it looks strangely two-dimensional. Maybe he can’t afford to run his car, but habit forces him to “fill up” a cardboard cut-out of one.

  15. Werner Scott Aug 17th 2008 at 09:38 pm 15

    I think the purpose is more along the lines of “You’ll get yours”. In this case a horse has replaced Bugs Bunny or Groucho Marx as the wiseacre. In other words it’s a joke folks something NOT to be taken entirely at face value. I agree that keeping a horse is expensive and in the days when we were dependent on animals for motive power there was more than a small measure of cruelty involved not to mention the public health issue. Nonetheless in some areas horse ownership is approaching levels not seen since the middle of the nineteenth century … expensive but not impossibly so. Also you rarely see an out-of-shape equestrian.

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