Calvin & Hobbes Economics
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Bill Watterson understood how things worked 15 years ago, which is pretty much how things still work today (click to see a larger version).
The date for the cartoon was obtained from this comment, Re: $8.4 BILLION Profit for Oil Giant (This Quarter Only!) and the image originally found on the Truth About Cars blog. Another full transcript of the cartoon is available at Recurring themes in Calvin and Hobbes; Wikipedia, the original source has since been edited and longer contains it. Such is the way of the Internet.