And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

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    It’s very difficult to maintain salt flat roads to everywhere. But yes, if we could take all of the economy, out of the environment and move it to a salt flat then we would not need asphalt paved roads. Also I suspect salt flat would deteriorate with heavy traffic.