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Gas cost, insurance, repairs, oil changes, registration, parking tickets and so on make cars expensive even if you pay it off. Cars were supposed to give us freedom, but they make us slaves. Are they really better than horses for people who drive around a few miles here and there?
My car costs me $0.24 per mile to run including gas, mx, insurance, taxes. Everything. That is averaged over 7 years, it's a station wagon. I bet that is way less than a horse when you factor in food, shelter, vet bills, paying someone to maintain them, etc. Cars are cheap transportation.
If I don't drive at all I just have to come up with taxes and insurance. That's around $280/year. Peanuts compared to what a horse would cost.
Gas cost, insurance, repairs, oil changes, registration, parking tickets and so on make cars expensive even if you pay it off. Cars were supposed to give us freedom, but they make us slaves. Are they really better than horses for people who drive around a few miles here and there?
Or maybe a bike would be better.
Do you have any clue how much it costs to maintain a horse? I didn't think so. Yeah, bikes would be better.
Do you have any clue how much it costs to maintain a horse? I didn't think so. Yeah, bikes would be better.
I only brought it up because oil will run out, so it's not an if, but a when. Whatever applies today, won't when that happens. But yeah, bikes have almost zero cost once paid for.
You can always buy a cheap used car instead of one over $10k. I'd take a car I can leave outside all day for several days over a horse I have to groom, feed, water, walk/run, saddle/unsaddle, provide shelter and health care for and also clean up after, every day of the year.
Of course a bicycle is even cheaper to maintain than a car, and healthier for you.
horses are cool, but bikes are just as fast and better
horses are cool but bikes are a lot less trouble and a lot less dangerous. And I can say this from experience after being thrown by a horse, I have realized the amount of power those animals have... you're literally just like a piece of paper to them, they can throw you up in the air like you're nothing. Also my great grandfather died being kicked by a mule and that ain't a good way to go.
The main dissadvantage of horses is the liability. They can go crazy if they get scared. I don't think that the maintenance cost for a horse is as much as some people think... it's a beast of burden darnit, not a fluffy little chihuahua pet. Put it in a pasture and give it water. But there are other dissadvantages like FLIES! and horse crap (although that's not at all a dissadvantage for people like me who garden), however they do attract problem #1 (flies).
and then there's MR. Al Gore who would have a problem with horses because they most definitelly output quite a bit of CO2 into the atmosphere.
I don't think that the maintenance cost for a horse is as much as some people think... it's a beast of burden darnit, not a fluffy little chihuahua pet. Put it in a pasture and give it water.
How many people in the city have a pasture? If you want your horse to be reliable, it's gotta be healthy and that costs $$$.
Gas cost, insurance, repairs, oil changes, registration, parking tickets and so on make cars expensive even if you pay it off. Cars were supposed to give us freedom, but they make us slaves. Are they really better than horses for people who drive around a few miles here and there?
Or maybe a bike would be better.
A bike makes way more sense really. No oats, no hay for bedding and no horse patties to avoid stepping in on the streets!
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horses are cool, but bikes are just as fast and better
