By: Nathan Ross
In today’s society, much of our way of life is based on the ideas of other people. However, not all of these ideas are the most well thought out. Many of them just whatever whim pops into a person’s head. There has been an argument made by an undisclosed source about an idea to make cars illegal and force every self-respecting American to ride a horse everywhere. This is one of those foolhardy ideas.
The idea that horses are better than cars is imbecilic, 95% of Americans own a car. Americans should not have to abandon their cars. This means that you would be forcing 95% of Americans to just trash their car and buy a horse. To buy a horse costs about $500, but then you have to feed it, house it, and clean up after it. First, you would have to build a barn because you certainly don’t want it living in your house, you would have huge piles of horse poop everywhere. So you build a barn and according to The Craftsman Book Company an average barn costs about $45,000 dollars. So here you are with your expensive barn thinking hey all my troubles are over, right? No, now you need to purchase more land so your horse can run around. But, how can you do that? All your neighbors own the surrounding land, so you buy land a couple miles away, this cost you around $10,000. Now every morning you have to bring your horse from the barn to the pasture. It does not take you very long to get there, after all you are on horseback, but then you have to walk back. Okay, it is not a big deal, you got some exercise right. So now you are sitting eating breakfast, looking at your monthly bill. This bill is enormous after all you just bought a barn, a horse, a couple acres of land, and about 12 months of horse feed which costed you $3,000. So now you owe about $58,500. This is of course in addition to the normal bill that you have. Now let us assume that you have two to four kids and a wife/husband. That would be an extra $17,500 for the food and the extra horses. So now, in your first month of owning a horse, you have spent $76,000. According to Kelly Blue Book, an average car costs $33,560. So, owning horses for a family is almost twice as much as the cost of an average car.
Horses tend to deposit huge amounts of unwanted feces. These horses drop their foul, antagonizing, disgusting buckets of feces everywhere from where they sleep to where they eat. Seriously, do you know how many times horses do their business per day? Horses go to the bathroom 12 times per day. That means tons of horse manure on the road. How are you going to deal with that in restaurants and hospitals? People are going to be eating while outside horses are standing around taking dumps. The smell would be horrendous, even worse than the subways. Also, horses are so slow it would take them so long to go anywhere. Cars would go so much faster. It would be like racing a snail against a dog, there is no point. The dog would eat the snail for breakfast, literally. How do you expect a horse to keep up with a car? Cars can go about 7 times faster than a horse. Also, new electric cars do not put dangerous gases into the atmosphere. So if you are willing to spend a ton of money on a bunch of horses who are liable to kick you in the face you might as well just buy an electric car. It will happen here you are going about your business cleaning up the horse’s business, grooming it, giving it food and bam! Suddenly, the horse gets the bright idea that you are a threat. Now that the horse thinks that you’re a threat he drops some Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan moves on you. Boom! You are lying on your back with your face caved in. You are yelling and screaming a ton until your wife/husband or kids hear you. Then they have to take you to the hospital a good 15 miles away. If you were in a car it would take about 20 minutes. But you are not, you have to ride a horse with your face caved in, taking a good hour and a half. This is the same horse of course that knocked your face in. Once you get to the hospital the doctors are able to diagnose you with a facial fracture. This is of course after they run you through a whole battery of tests, costing a fortune driving you even farther into debt. After you get home you can’t do anything, because one of the symptoms of a facial fracture is blurry vision. So while you are at home, you need help with everything because you can’t even see your own toilet.
We have talked about how badly this would affect the average American that still has a job. So now we will talk about the Americans who just lost their jobs due to a truly stupid idea. 182,100 people work for American car companies. That means the moment you make cars illegal 182,100 people would be out of a job. This loss of jobs would decrease the amount of money being invested in the economy, thus decreasing circulation.
For over one hundred years, cars have been our main mode of transportation. Many of us have gone almost everywhere in an automobile. Throughout the history of the Earth many ideas or traditions have had to stop. But these different vehicles have saved many lives. Are you really willing to sacrifice them?
In today’s society, much of our way of life is based on the ideas of other people. However, not all of these ideas are the most well thought out. Many of them just whatever whim pops into a person’s head. There has been an argument made by an undisclosed source about an idea to make cars illegal and force every self-respecting American to ride a horse everywhere. This is one of those foolhardy ideas.
The idea that horses are better than cars is imbecilic, 95% of Americans own a car. Americans should not have to abandon their cars. This means that you would be forcing 95% of Americans to just trash their car and buy a horse. To buy a horse costs about $500, but then you have to feed it, house it, and clean up after it. First, you would have to build a barn because you certainly don’t want it living in your house, you would have huge piles of horse poop everywhere. So you build a barn and according to The Craftsman Book Company an average barn costs about $45,000 dollars. So here you are with your expensive barn thinking hey all my troubles are over, right? No, now you need to purchase more land so your horse can run around. But, how can you do that? All your neighbors own the surrounding land, so you buy land a couple miles away, this cost you around $10,000. Now every morning you have to bring your horse from the barn to the pasture. It does not take you very long to get there, after all you are on horseback, but then you have to walk back. Okay, it is not a big deal, you got some exercise right. So now you are sitting eating breakfast, looking at your monthly bill. This bill is enormous after all you just bought a barn, a horse, a couple acres of land, and about 12 months of horse feed which costed you $3,000. So now you owe about $58,500. This is of course in addition to the normal bill that you have. Now let us assume that you have two to four kids and a wife/husband. That would be an extra $17,500 for the food and the extra horses. So now, in your first month of owning a horse, you have spent $76,000. According to Kelly Blue Book, an average car costs $33,560. So, owning horses for a family is almost twice as much as the cost of an average car.
Horses tend to deposit huge amounts of unwanted feces. These horses drop their foul, antagonizing, disgusting buckets of feces everywhere from where they sleep to where they eat. Seriously, do you know how many times horses do their business per day? Horses go to the bathroom 12 times per day. That means tons of horse manure on the road. How are you going to deal with that in restaurants and hospitals? People are going to be eating while outside horses are standing around taking dumps. The smell would be horrendous, even worse than the subways. Also, horses are so slow it would take them so long to go anywhere. Cars would go so much faster. It would be like racing a snail against a dog, there is no point. The dog would eat the snail for breakfast, literally. How do you expect a horse to keep up with a car? Cars can go about 7 times faster than a horse. Also, new electric cars do not put dangerous gases into the atmosphere. So if you are willing to spend a ton of money on a bunch of horses who are liable to kick you in the face you might as well just buy an electric car. It will happen here you are going about your business cleaning up the horse’s business, grooming it, giving it food and bam! Suddenly, the horse gets the bright idea that you are a threat. Now that the horse thinks that you’re a threat he drops some Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan moves on you. Boom! You are lying on your back with your face caved in. You are yelling and screaming a ton until your wife/husband or kids hear you. Then they have to take you to the hospital a good 15 miles away. If you were in a car it would take about 20 minutes. But you are not, you have to ride a horse with your face caved in, taking a good hour and a half. This is the same horse of course that knocked your face in. Once you get to the hospital the doctors are able to diagnose you with a facial fracture. This is of course after they run you through a whole battery of tests, costing a fortune driving you even farther into debt. After you get home you can’t do anything, because one of the symptoms of a facial fracture is blurry vision. So while you are at home, you need help with everything because you can’t even see your own toilet.
We have talked about how badly this would affect the average American that still has a job. So now we will talk about the Americans who just lost their jobs due to a truly stupid idea. 182,100 people work for American car companies. That means the moment you make cars illegal 182,100 people would be out of a job. This loss of jobs would decrease the amount of money being invested in the economy, thus decreasing circulation.
For over one hundred years, cars have been our main mode of transportation. Many of us have gone almost everywhere in an automobile. Throughout the history of the Earth many ideas or traditions have had to stop. But these different vehicles have saved many lives. Are you really willing to sacrifice them?