Petrochemical Engineer T-Shirts

'It's a shut-and-open case.'

Thinking Gears

Cutaway view of Ocean liner.

Rare earths are the key to a greenwashed, technotopian future

"In twenty seconds, our crew will be traveling fast enough to escape the Earth’s problems."

'Are we nearly there yet?'

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

A massive ship pulls in in Central Park.

underwater knight

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders

Baby being fed using a lego construction.

Largest passenger aircraft ever built. "Why does it have to be so big?" "We had to make extra room for all the subsidy money."

The Wright brothers discover the first nightmare flight

'I'm a do-it-yourselfer, but I've never been a done-it-yourselfer...'

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

Before they settled on water, shower pioneers experimented with a number of alternatives, including spaghetti,

Ship upsidedown in a bottle has rescue boat in bottle next to it.

'How can I get my baby to sleep?'

'How long have you operated multi-engines, sailor?'

No Cheap Fuel Ahead: Easy Street Ends.

Impatient Oil Drillers LTD.

The Brief collaboration Alfred Nobel And Thomas Edison

'I'm getting some unusually high readings around you.'

'Wait, wait, before you mix them, you have to say, 'Pow!'.'

Cars feeding at a gas tanker on the side of the road

Tugboat tugging Iceberg

"Read me one more, Daddy!"

'Look on the bright side: now we qualify for an energy-conservation award.'

"Yeah, OK! You surrender. We get it. That's great. Now who's in charge around here? Hello? Yoo-hoo."

'Big deal! -- anybody can build a prefab!'

Molecules You Ought to be Aware Of.

"With the benefit of hindsight, I’d say no, Ed, it wasn’t ‘funny’ letting him steer the boat!"

"How about this? We carpet the road and use the resultant static electricity to power our electric cars."

'... And that's where I'm seeking planning permission to build a secret uranium enrichment plant...'

'I'm inventing an acid that eats through anything.'