[ApplegateRanch]

I can’t see this making sense in large cities, but some small farmers and loggers find them a cheaper alternative to paying the fuel costs for tractors and skidders.

Small problem: You can't park a horse in the machine shed for the winter, after filling it with anti-freeze & draining the fuel tank.

You have to feed, water, and shovel every day, whether you're using it or not.

Which brings up the next problem: growing enough additional 'fuel' to keep them fed & watered, without losing crop land, disturbing euro-sacrosanct 'habitat', or running afoul of other EUroproblems.

A horse (or cat, for that matter) = a nice, useful, furry friend; 12,000,000 = a plague of Biblical proportions.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Small problem: You can’t park a horse in the machine shed for the winter, after filling it with anti-freeze & draining the fuel tank.

You have to feed, water, and shovel every day, whether you’re using it or not.***

There FRENCH! After riding it they kill and eat it!