Horsing without oil!
Dec. 11th, 2007 by Al 
Remember the days our great grandparents used to move around the country without cars and buses.Horse carriages used to be the norm and time seems to be slower..will we swing back to that era without fossil power?
Yes and No…animals are always part of human ecosystem since the beginning of time.However with the advent of cheap energy, we’ve grown apart from the horses and bulls that’s been used for transportation. Nevertheless I do not forsee the return of cowboy age ..merely the fusion and better usage of our horsepower.
Renewable technonolgy plus animal power seems to be a more probable scenerio ,trains and buses that use clean energy will be back in a big way as the public give up their hummers for cycling shorter distances.Horse carriages may be the gap between trains and bicycles.
In Cuba we can see good examples of public transportation and goods carriers using both trucks and bullcarts. They’ve survived decades of energy embargoes and make good case studies of using our existing energy platform.But theirs is a crude way of managing peak oil environment due to politics and economics.Most countries will need to find their own paths and will do better than Cuba I believe as the populace is more creative and knowledge intensive.
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