Couple of articles about the return to horse power. Some day it may happen. Oil is finite, and bio fuels are no real answer to the problem. Who's to say that something we've used for thousands of years for transport and work won't be making a come back in the next couple of decades ?
"The jingling of trace chains is a gentle sound, cheerily soft and unobtrusive, like a muffled musical background to thoughtful silence. The chains are attached to traces, which are attached to hames, which are strapped around the horse collar, that device that harnessed the power in grass and grain and changed the history of the world. Thousands of men and women yet living were born into the quiet surroundings where only a jingle of chain, a creaking of leather, and the plodding of hooves marked the flow of that power from beast to burden, from the collar to the wagon, to the plow, to the harvester or the construction implement that sustained their world."
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/343
"More than 70 French towns have already gone back to the future by introducing horse-drawn carriages to replace petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles for local tasks such as collecting rubbish, street-cleaning and taking children to school. And at least 30 more are set to join the revolution next year."
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-horse-is-this-the-secret-weapon-to-beat-global-warming-760408.html
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