Foreign exchange

Although U.S. cartoonists are far from running out of gas on energy policy, oil exploration and the conservation conversation, it never hurts to check out the foreign competition. Singapore’s Heng Kim Song drove home his point -- in an 18-wheel tanker. Austria’s Petar Pismestrovic contemplated a grim high-stakes game of food and fossil fuels. But Kenya’s Gado really put things in perspective with his blood-for-oil gas-line image. Kind of makes the mileage we get from those living-in-the-SUV jokes look like a waste of time and energy. -- Joel Pett