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by michelle.sundvick | June 27, 2008 at 09:09 am
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More and more people are trading in their costly gasoline guzzling vehicles for the environmentally friendly hybrid car. A group of co-workers at a dental office in Washington decided to take one step further in protecting the environment - and their bank accounts. On Wednesday, after gas prices hit the $4 per gallon mark, the group boycotted their cars and saddled up their horses for a leisurely ride to work.
Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses, on Wednesday the crew saddled up and rode in to work.
"We decided that when gas got to $4 a gallon, we would all ride in," Leonard said.
Ten riders and two bicyclists met up at Leonard's home about four miles north of his office for the commute. City officials in Arlington, located about 50 miles north of Seattle, granted them a special permit to ride as a group.
"We can't dictate how much oil companies charge, but today we're not buying," Leonard said. "We're using one-horse power."
Leonard said the ride was a way to encourage his patients to use alternative forms of transportation.
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at 09:13 on June 27th, 2008
Is the the beginning of multilevel hitching posts?
at 09:28 on June 27th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 10:02 on June 27th, 2008
This lovely old fashioned horse driven tram appeared on the streets of Warsaw on June, 14, 2008, during a street fair organized to celebrate a traditional marketplace from pre-WWII Warsaw, Kercelak.
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at 10:36 on June 27th, 2008
Let me be the first to say it: "I want a pony!"
at 10:44 on June 27th, 2008
Horse riders share the Trinity River trails with cyclists in Fort Worth, Texas.
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at 16:48 on June 27th, 2008
This photo is one of the hundreds of wild ponies running freely in Assateague Island State Park near Ocean City, Maryland.
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at 16:58 on June 27th, 2008
I would love to ride a pony to work - but I think it would take a really long time...
at 01:57 on June 28th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I LOVE this story! Makes me laugh - I'm so happy for them!
But, they'd need to gallop to out pace a good power walker. :)
at 22:51 on June 28th, 2008
I really didn't have much time to think, the only horse I saw in the event; so I grabbed it quickly with my Nikon D200. As stated on the yahoo site, the dutiful backup was part of the motivation. Generally I go to this rather diginified parade, because a restaurant I frequent on 76th Street and First Avenue here in New York City, as I hate to cook, has Greek management. And Lori, the weekday manager, usually alerts me to the Annual Greek Parade along Fifth Avenue, here right along side of Cental Park to my back, which parade, I believe is in honor of Greek Independence Day. It's generally associated by me with one of the first signs of Spring, my favorite season.
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at 12:14 on June 29th, 2008
michelle.sundvick, I like this story. It's good stuff. A few places in small towns in the interior are taking their Percherons they use for logging, hitching them up to a wagon and heading to town.