CAN USING HORSES HELP REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON OIL?

CAN USING HORSES HELP REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON OIL?

BY ZANE

1. Can horses help reduce our dependency on oil?

Yes, horses can replace many machines we use every day. For example instead of driving up large trucks, lumber jacks could use draft horses to pull chopped down trees out of the forrest. Another way horses can reduce our dependancy on oil, is with their manure. If we use horses manure as fertalizer, we can cut down on the chemical fertilizer we use and farms use with equals less oil being used to make the fertilizers. The less man-made products and more natural recources we use the less oil we will use.

1. What are the advantages/disadvantages?

The biggest disadvantage to replaceing cars with horses would be the fact that if we replaced all cars with horses we would have so much methane gas that our atmosohere would already be ruined. We would need a way to get rid of, or utilize the methane gas to be able to relpace cars with horses. An advantage to using horses would be that we wouldn't have to keep destroying our planet to get more oil.

1. Is there a way to utilize methane gas?

There is infact a way to preserve and use mathane gas. Not only can the methane from horses be utilized, but methane from landfills can and should be utilized. This could infact be the worlds solution to our oil crisis.