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Re: The Tractor Will Never Replace the Horse (long
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Posted by Ray on November 04, 2003 at 08:51:54 from (158.222.226.250):
In Reply to: The Tractor Will Never Replace the Horse (long pos posted by DRL on November 03, 2003 at 11:58:58:
Of course we need to keep in mind that the reason a dozer can do so much more work than a horse is the tankers of 300 million year old liquid sunshine we ship around the earth. A horse runs on last weeks sunshine (or at most last years sunshine). Kind of like running a household on current income vs savings. Someday the chickens will come home to roost (if we ever begin to pay the actual cost of oil, including the hundreds of billion$ spent on defense) and millions more farmers (and maybe a few horses) will be needed to operate our farms. The only thing sure in this world is that it's going to keep on changing. Just my $0.02, :>)
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