Normally, Stephanie Kirchner is on the road in her SUV. But since fuel prices have been rising as a result of the war in Ukraine, the Hessian has started to rethink. Instead of using a car, the 33-year-old rides a horse, she told Bild: Kirchner has been riding to work regularly for several weeks.
That makes perfect sense, because Kirchner is a horse trainer by profession: She looks after a total of 25 horses at her riding stables in Oberweyer, Hesse. Privately, however, she has used the animals at most once for a ride in between, but not as a real means of transportation in everyday life. Kirchner not only rides to work, but also makes other trips on horseback, for example to the grocery store.
This saves her money – about 250 euros in fuel costs. “I try to leave the car behind as much as possible. My employees have also acquired a taste for it and ride to work and back home. Together we saved 450 euros last month,” she told Bild. However, real horsepower is less time-efficient than car horsepower: It takes her 15 minutes to get to work by car, 40 by horse.
“Of course, it doesn’t make sense to buy a horse just to save gas,” Kirchner told the “Frankfurter Neue Presse.” But since she has to deal with horses all day anyway and owns ten of her own, she takes one of the animals home every evening and rides it back to work the next morning. She also regularly travels by covered wagon, once even crossing the drive-through of a fast-food chain.
Even though the idea was born out of necessity due to skyrocketing fuel prices, horse trainer Kirchner can’t see any disadvantages. On the contrary: “For one thing, I save money, plus my horses have to be moved every day anyway. So it’s a win-win situation for the wallet and the animals,” she says.
I discovered a cheaper, more energy efficient, and most of the time faster, way of transportation. It is called a bicycle.
If it is close enough to get there by horse, there was never the need need use the SUV every day in the first place.
Also… bicycles.
How would you translate from French “Hola manant!” in German ?
I’m rather sceptical here. Horses need a lot of food and space. There’s no way a horse is cheaper than a car. You want cheap transport? Get yourself an electric bike.
Entitled middle class woman does entitled middle class woman things. Next!
> Allerdings sind echte Pferdestärken weniger zeiteffizient als Auto-PS. Mit dem Wagen braucht sie 15 Minuten zur Arbeit, per Pferd sind es 40.
> However, real horse power is less time-efficient than a car’s. With the car, it’s 15m to work, on horse it’s 40.
Unless she has an exotic car with only 1 or 2 HP, how is the horse’s horse power not more efficient here? Bad journalism. 😛
Horses are expensive AF to keep and maintain. Scooter is a lot cheaper. But i guess it works for her since she holds them anyway, but really not for the regular person (maybe few hundred years earlier would be her moment).
*oh you just need to own the horse and the stables first*
It’s like carpentry and woodworking videos and articles. “Oh I just made this myself with 50€ materials instead of paying 1500€ for it … *using tools worth 5000€*”
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Normally, Stephanie Kirchner is on the road in her SUV. But since fuel prices have been rising as a result of the war in Ukraine, the Hessian has started to rethink. Instead of using a car, the 33-year-old rides a horse, she told Bild: Kirchner has been riding to work regularly for several weeks.
That makes perfect sense, because Kirchner is a horse trainer by profession: She looks after a total of 25 horses at her riding stables in Oberweyer, Hesse. Privately, however, she has used the animals at most once for a ride in between, but not as a real means of transportation in everyday life. Kirchner not only rides to work, but also makes other trips on horseback, for example to the grocery store.
This saves her money – about 250 euros in fuel costs. “I try to leave the car behind as much as possible. My employees have also acquired a taste for it and ride to work and back home. Together we saved 450 euros last month,” she told Bild. However, real horsepower is less time-efficient than car horsepower: It takes her 15 minutes to get to work by car, 40 by horse.
“Of course, it doesn’t make sense to buy a horse just to save gas,” Kirchner told the “Frankfurter Neue Presse.” But since she has to deal with horses all day anyway and owns ten of her own, she takes one of the animals home every evening and rides it back to work the next morning. She also regularly travels by covered wagon, once even crossing the drive-through of a fast-food chain.
Even though the idea was born out of necessity due to skyrocketing fuel prices, horse trainer Kirchner can’t see any disadvantages. On the contrary: “For one thing, I save money, plus my horses have to be moved every day anyway. So it’s a win-win situation for the wallet and the animals,” she says.
I discovered a cheaper, more energy efficient, and most of the time faster, way of transportation. It is called a bicycle.
If it is close enough to get there by horse, there was never the need need use the SUV every day in the first place.
Also… bicycles.
How would you translate from French “Hola manant!” in German ?
I’m rather sceptical here. Horses need a lot of food and space. There’s no way a horse is cheaper than a car. You want cheap transport? Get yourself an electric bike.
Entitled middle class woman does entitled middle class woman things. Next!
> Allerdings sind echte Pferdestärken weniger zeiteffizient als Auto-PS. Mit dem Wagen braucht sie 15 Minuten zur Arbeit, per Pferd sind es 40.
> However, real horse power is less time-efficient than a car’s. With the car, it’s 15m to work, on horse it’s 40.
Unless she has an exotic car with only 1 or 2 HP, how is the horse’s horse power not more efficient here? Bad journalism. 😛
Horses are expensive AF to keep and maintain. Scooter is a lot cheaper. But i guess it works for her since she holds them anyway, but really not for the regular person (maybe few hundred years earlier would be her moment).
🎵F*CK your Honda civic, I’ve a horse outside🎵
[Relevant.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8)
*oh you just need to own the horse and the stables first*
It’s like carpentry and woodworking videos and articles. “Oh I just made this myself with 50€ materials instead of paying 1500€ for it … *using tools worth 5000€*”
Because horses are free for rich people
/s