Horses are way more expensive than GasoMobiles even at double or triple todays fuel prices.
They're also heavy polluters. During the days of horse drawn transport, towns and cities had to keep permanent manure collectors on staff 24/7. NY City employed thousands and disposed of many tons of horse manure a day. All of it hand collected from the streets, stables and such cleaned and hauled their own or paid for city pickup.
Can you imagine trying to feed hundreds of thousands maybe millions of horses, just for NYC say. How many semi loads of hay and grain would it take daily? Trainloads dedicated solely to horse feed I'm sure. Same to dispose of the manure. Compost on the level of hundreds or thousands of tons? Yeah, right. How about water? Know how much water a horse drinks a day?
Believe it or not when the internal combustion engine became popular it was more expensive to own, feed and maintain than today and it was FAR more economical and ecologically friendly than horse power.
It's a fun fantasy though.
(Me and Banjo cir. 67-69)
Frosty
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Last edited by Frosty; 07-04-2008 at 02:39 PM.
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