On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:55:34AM +0000, mike wilson wrote: > > Coming soon, to an energy-guzzling country near you: horse-drawn vehicles.
That happened, some thirty-odd years ago, back in the UK. A few the small brewers caught on to the fact (as one of the London brewers knew full well) that the most cost-effective way of delivering a product consisting mostly of water to a limited market area (rarely more than ten miles from the central production site) was to use a horse-drawn cart. (I don't know why it didn't work out that way for dairies; perhaps that's because everybody expects their milk to be delivered early in the morning, while pub deliveries can be spread throughout the day, thus getting more product delivered per vehicle).
