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• No, some of us are glad that the car improved the environment by replacing the horse and cart (to suggest horse and cart as a replacement for the automobile is to be very ignorant of the environmental effects of the horse and cart).
  
  For you see it turns out that horses actually caused more pollution than the cars that replaced them (not to mention all the animal welfare problems horse drawn transport caused, not everyone treated the horses properly and it was often cheaper to work a horse to death and buy a new horse than it was to treat them properly).
  
  Those who ride horses for recreation aren%26#039;t a problem because there just aren%26#039;t enough of them to mess things up but if everyone traded in their SUV for a horse the streets would pile up with manure (and if you think traffic jams are bad now, they%26#039;d be a lot worse with slowly accelerating horses).
  
  Of course some people seem more interested in romantic primitivism than in actually finding solutions to our problems, which might explain why so many people think the utterly stupid idea of using horses for something other than recreation is actually worth bothering with.
• Good point Crazy Horse, maybe they should make a comeback.
  
  1st point - They haven%26#039;t developed much %26#039;true%26#039; alternatives to the motor vehicle. The Toyota Prius WHOO HOO! General Motors also sits on plans for great ideas for alternative engines, and have done for years, but never intended to develop these ideas because it is in leagues with the oil companies - damn them!
  
  WHO IS DOING ALL THE THUMBS DOWNING? You have a troll by the looks of it.....
  
  2nd point - I am sure that horse ownership will have to be looked at by the average Joe, simply because car ownership is getting to be impossible.
  
  3rd point - No public transport, and even if there were (in my village), I wouldn%26#039;t give the govt the privelidge on TAXING me to use it.
  
  There are 2 buses a day from my village to town, neither goes at the time I go and come home from work. And for a 20 mile round trip, they charge around 8 quid return. To sit on a bus with dirty smelly people farting and burping, and the dirty diesel engine throwing thick black smoke out of it%26#039;s a$$. Give me %26#039;a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse%26#039; - any day.
• Hi
  I%26#039;ll tell you what I have seen an increase in, those little four wheel buggy%26#039;s, the ones that are supposed to be used by invalids you know the battery type, I%26#039;m sure not all the people using them are invalids but still they%26#039;re %26quot;green%26quot; good luck to them, I think the makers should jazz them up a bit make them more attractive for general usage, but then there%26#039;s the government they%26#039;d spoil it by over taxing them I suppose.
  Ray. West York%26#039;s. UK
  P.S I%26#039;ve just thought, these %26quot;Hobby Bobby%26#039;s%26quot; we%26#039;ve now got can fine you if your dog craps in the street, can you imagine the fine when your horse does? well somethings got to replace the road tax
• Won%26#039;t help much with global warming. Methane is the main exhaust gas from horses, much more greenhouse effect than co2. Blacksmiths burn coke or charcoal, primary emissions co and co2. May be a problem getting enough hay to fuel all the horses needed for Tescos %26quot;you shop we drop%26quot; program.
• It will never happen, people will go to public transport before they do such a move, and horse food is rising fast as well so costs will also go up if people buy a horse, and they are also more expensive than a car, unless u get some tiny thing.
• well i live in ardmore.. we have the state horseshoeing school here... very busy place....
  i cant see why we don%26#039;t ride more horses they cheap to keep . and they cant plow carry things .. very safe ..
  i believe in the out back parts of town they are doing better
  and people still love them ride free cowboys,,, and girls lol
• I live in the channel islands and in Sark no cars are allowed they have only ever had horse and cart. The only motorised vehicle allowed are the tractor and ambulance
• really beautiful, CRAZY HORSE, i would certainly love those times to be back, no i don%26#039;t honestly think this would be a bad thing at all, Ann
• It would be great if it could. I hope more people will start to walk also. It would help the children become fitter (and parents also)