This is an example of horatine satire. You know this because Pitkin is mocking and being over dramatic for people to understand his point . Pitkin is mocking modern issues in the world such as unemployment and gas prices. Some elements of satire in the comic is hyperbole and verbal irony (sarcasm). She is making fun how the gas prices lowered and no one knew and only cared that they could get to work while others don't have jobs. Pitkin emphasis on why and stone and job so the comic is dramatic and that the reader knows why she made the comic. The modern issues in the comic is the gas prices and unemployment so the gas prices dropped but people still didn't have a career.