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[–] 231 points 2 years ago (22 children)

750 a year? Wtf is this retard smoking. Cost for land, hay storage, water, vet, and farrier. Human time cost to feed them twice a day, get rid of or spread the shit. Blanket, saddle, bridle. You're looking at a few thousand a year minus the time sink.

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  • [–] 98 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    This article says 8 to 11k yearly. https://horserookie.com/average-horse-cost-by-state/

    While cost of owning a car is between 3k and 9k yearly according to https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/.

    I would have thought that a horse would be much more expensive, like 10 times a car cost.

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    [–] 117 points 2 years ago (29 children)

    Zero emissions? I know people find it ha ha funny, but farts legitimately contain methane and other green house gassses.

    Cows for example are a large contributor of GHG

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    plus if we had as many horses as we did cars we would be living in a horse shit apocalypse.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Compress into brick, then build tower. Now you also have tower.

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    [+] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Horses can't be beat in the post-apocalypse for speed, but for most other things you probably want a donkey or mule. Far sturdier, easier to handle, can eat anything, and has no regard for wolves.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    From what little I know about horses, almost all your time is spent trying to make sure they don't kill themselves. I can leave my vechile outside in the cold for weeks at a time and not have to think about it.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    0 emissions

    FYI: Horses fart and methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    $750 a year to maintain health

    Lol

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    [+] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I'd feel bad about leaving them tied to a tree while I'm at work, so I'd probably just go with a bike which is fueled by snacks and doesn't even shit!

    !micromobility@lemmy.world ftw

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    You will get an OWI if you ride a horse drunk.

    Source: I know a guy who trained his horse to ride from the bar to his house on its own. Cops still pulled him over because he was sleeping on the horse.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    False - you can get a DUI on a horse (in some states).

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    That is a shockingly cheap horse.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Ignoring lack of parking, slow travel and waste disposal, it's more like 3-6k if you already live on a farm. 5-10k if you board it with someone, and you'll likely need a car to get you to the stables.

    A bicycle however...

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Where is this guy getting a horse for $1,000 from?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Where the fuck you store it though? A shitty car you can park anywhere, a horse is gonna take some space. Especially for us poor fucks where the temperature drops below freezing for part of the year. Car just maybe not gonna start today, a horse might not start ever again.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What constitutes reliable is a matter of opinion I suppose, but the first concrete statement of fact:

    0 emissions

    Wrong, right out of the gate.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (1 child)
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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The lowest emission vehicle you can own is an electric bike.*

    Will cost 1–4k and way less than $750 annually in maintenance. Can get a road-only one or one capable of going off-road. Does not require insurance or licensing. Can't legally drink and ride, but you're very unlikely to get caught if you do, and unlike drink driving the risk is overwhelmingly only to yourself.

    Keeps you fit and healthy by being active in your daily life.

    * yes, lower even than an analogue bike, because the electric motor is more carbon efficient than human muscle power which requires eating more.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don’t think the horse pill means what anon thinks it means…

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    I know it's a joke. If I was taking it seriously: I don't want to spend several hours getting to a job that's already say, an hour's commute. And then storing the horse at the job and then several hours back.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Faster travel > everything else

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I'm just here to appreciate horseface gigachad, nei-ei-ei-ei-eighhhhh 😆

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also the cost of fixing a horse is a new horse

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