Laughter Best Gas Price Medicine?

Web Cartoon, T-Shirts Take Comic Look At Record Numbers At Pump

(CBS)  If you don't laugh at the sky-high price of gas these days, you might cry.

Figuring laughter's the better route, The Early Show Thursday played part of a Web cartoon by designer Dominic Tocci, poking fun at the brutal numbers at the pump.

It's called "I Can’t Afford My Gasoline," and its lyrics, in part, are:

"I got out of my bed this morning, got in my car and turned the key. Then I called outta work and I went back into bed, because the needle was on 'E.' I can't afford my gasoline. The prices have become obscene. They're up five cents a day. Who has that kind of green? I can't afford my gasoline."

To view the complete cartoon, from frontsteps.com, click here.

Co-anchor Rene Syler then showed some T-shirts poking fun at the situation.

One depicted Uncle Sam, pointing and saying, "I want you to give me gas money."

Another said, "I love (with a heart standing for the word 'love') gas prices."

"I'm on the gas can diet. I can either eat or drive," read another.

And the last one she showed has an image of a gas pump nozzle, with the words, "Arm and a leg."