[Islander7]

"....It's great for workers and the community to have contact with a living thing," Linot said...."

[RightWhale]

A horse and cart would do. Can’t see riding the horse and carrying groceries.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

De Veyrac's group says it is the first in France to offer consulting on a wide range of horse-powered vehicles that could also haul bottles and aid street sweeping.

Mr. De Veyrac probably also doesn't remember the piles of HORSE MANURE in the streets in the early 1900's either!

[RDTF]

this cracked me up

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"It's all about sustainable development and bringing some humanity back to today's monotonous, machine-driven jobs,"

It's also all about bringing horse manure and urine back to today's streets, along with a host of epizootic diseases.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Horses are a possible alternative for vehicles such as school buses....Huh? What am I missing?...Is the horse going to tow the bus?

[John Jorsett]

De Veyrac's group says it is the first in France to offer consulting on a wide range of horse-powered vehicles that could also haul bottles and aid street sweeping.

And you can bet that there'd be a lot more of that ...

[pissant]

Meals on wheels?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Meanwhile, out in the suburbs of Paris . . .

[traditional1]

"revamped horse-drawn carriage with disc brakes"

How do you air condition a horse drawn carriage (and still be environmentally/eco-friendly)?

Inquiring minds want to know....

[Secret Agent Man]

How ‘bout rickshaws? We could have the unemployed french people pull them, al a Seinfeld.

[steelyourfaith]

~ AGW™ ping~

[dinodino]

This is AWESOME. The French are truly mad.

[MississippiMan]

I enjoy laughing at goofy French nonsense as much as anyone, but...

If we’re being serious, this notion is being put forth by an equestrian organization, not the French government or even a typical French-thinking bunch of econuts. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine an American equestrian organization trying to get the horse re-involved in tasks they lost long ago.

MM (in TX)

[SGCOS]

OK old timers...this is gonna hurt...

Remember the old Rocky/Bullwinkle cartoons, there was a segment played about a Frenchman who lived on a hill.

Usually right after Professor Klyde Krashcop or in the general vacinity..

Every day, or week whatver, a parade came down the hill where he lived and the 'horse crap' collector trailer would go over a bump and dump the load into this guys house....

Then he would go into the "les pew, les disgusting..." as he shoveled out his house.

We now return to your regularly scheduled thread...

[Bender2]

The French have a word for this... Merde!

[STE=Q]

“It’s also all about bringing horse manure and urine back to today’s streets, along with a host of epizootic diseases.”

LOL!

We know ‘the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain’...

But will the poop in France land mainly on the grass?

Never mind!

[ApplegateRanch]

"....It's great for workers and the community to have contact with a living thing," Linot said...."

Will they rethink this after the "disadvantaged youthful denizens" of the banlieues start overturning and burning "Hippovilles", to BBQ the horses?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Eco-friendly?

Do you really think so?

Please consider that a motor only is producing fumes and consuming energy when it is on, which may be only a couple of hours a day. A horse on the other hand is consuming fuel, producing fumes and solid waste 24 hours a day.

[I see my hands]

Will this whinny any awards for a good idea? Neigh.

[Redleg Duke]

I have a picture taken in the early 1900s of Highway 141 in Northern Wisconsin. What really stands out are the "road apples" all over the place.

That is something they haven't thought about. Horses are definitely not "emission-free"!