Are horses the answer to high gas prices?

Question

if more people ride horses then that will cut demand on gas and the price will come down. As an added bonus horses can be a DD, that's how they did it in the old west.

Answer 1

Actually horses caused the invention of the car.  There were so many horses in New York at one point it was a sanitation nightmare and a health hazard.  The invention of the car removed all that wonderful waste and was hailed at the time for "saving NY".  What would NY smell like in August with 10 million horses?   Funny how the worm turns......

Answer 2

Why a horse???

whats wrong with a bike that way you tackle two problems high gas prices and obesity :)

Answer 3

Sure, a horse in every garage!

And that will create lots of new jobs in Street Cleaning!

Seriously, no.  I figure even you (like most folks these days) don't have the time, skills or space to house and care for a horse.  And what would the parking lot at Safeway or Costco look like?

Better solution - use a bicycle as much as possible to get around.

Answer 4

when you factor in the cost of buying the horse, feeding the horse, building a barn to house the horse, and vet bills, clean up costs, etc. i think you will find that horses are much more expensive than automobiles to operate, don't last as long as automobiles(how many 40 year old horses do you know of), and are more tempermental than automobiles. in the long run horses are less efficient than automobiles. perhaps one day horses will make a come back as transportation, but that will be sometime in the future.

Answer 5

Yes- but only in the sense of what it takes to maintain a single horse,through a full year of self-sufficiency. Do you profess to explain all the agri-intensive grain production and storage necessary to start,maintain and speculate upon, the continued performance of such a land mammal? Do you dare mention the black-smithing and leather-strap making disciplines that must be involved to take control of the mammals? Do you dare mention the Veterinary Care so critically important,in this chemically sabotaged environment, as a requisite cost to ownership? Dare you mention all these necessary costs ,for successful continuance of these mammals, into the next opportunity to exploit them for your continued sustenance?

Answer 6

as humans evolve, we find newer and better methods of getting around now scientists are looking for methods to get around high gas prices such as inventing hybrids. however this is just the beginning studies of using hydrogen and solar power are being under gone everyday.

to answer your question, no i don't this humans will ever revert back to using horses a s the main method of transportation in any civilization!