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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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You know what horse can do that no car, electric or not, can do?
You can get on a horse, or horse-drawn carriage, completely wasted drunk out of your mind, or high, or just too tired to drive. Tell horse "home" and he will go to the stable he came from, dragging you with it all the way.
Horses consume no gasoline, no diesel, they just eat literal grass and drink tap water. And their shit is often packaged and sold as fertilizer.
How the fuck in the times of high energy prices, both gas and electricity, people are not just turning back to horses is beyond me. Horses are economically viable and sound, just grab the horses from working type, not sport type. Smarter than AI, calmer than Trump (and more reasonable), grass-to-fertilizer converter, biological motorbike.
I mean, bicycles and pedelecs exist as well and I really don't need to be unconscious in traffic.
I'm very much anti-car. I don't own a car. My apartment doesn't have a car park (at my request before it was built). ... But I think you're really over-egging the utility of horses. I don't think they are anywhere near as viable in dense urban environments. I'd say a bicycle is far more realistic alternative to a car (I say that from experience). Perhaps an electric bike depending on your needs.
Keeping a horse takes a huge amount of space and resources. Perhaps you can do that if you live in a rural area and own a bit of farmland; but otherwise, I don't think its is affordable or practical to own horse.
horses can poop alot randomly.
Ours sure is causing way more in vet bills than our car's lease, insurance and gas combined, while also unable to carry either of us anywhere. She'd also not go home, but to the next patch of greenery, whether or not she can eat it...
Bring back the days of perpetual stank!
Like our cities, full of cars and trash, do not stink already.
Haven't spent much time around large animals huh. You should try shoveling some shit.
And this means, horses also create jobs!