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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: They Shoot Horses, Dont They?
Description: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
No, they don’t. The advent of the automobile around 1895 did not engender a huge equine genocide. We use horses today: for work, for recreation, for crowd control, for sport.
Hence, the internal combustion engine is not disappearing in your lifetime, despite stupid political statements such as the recent “all cars must achieve 65 miles-per-gallon by 2031.” (Let’s also pass a resolution that there needs to be world peace by November. That should take care of that, right?)
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