Thread by @homemadeguitars

I am in something of an ethical quandary. I suspect I'm going to go with "more fun" and not "more ethical."
My mind turns these issues over and over.

Tomorrow I am taking my donkey team, Missy and Clara, about 55 miles to Longview Horse Park in Kansas City for a "fun driving event" organized by the Kansas City Carriage and Driving Association.
I can rationalize this by saying it will help make my girls safer to drive, practice

But I can drive them around here on country roads and accomplish the same thing without pulling them, and a horse trailer, with my monster diesel pickup truck, 110 mile round trip. My friend Sydney is going too, taking this pony.

And on top of that, I'm about to buy an aluminum gooseneck horse trailer from Sydney so I can take my girls and their various carts, wagons, and farm implements to other events. Expending fossil fuels to do so.
This is, to me, an ethical quandary.
Every unnecessary trip.

But it gets lonely here. I have no community. Non-Amish "farm communities" in America are barely communities in any realistic sense of the word, and to use donkeys in a community that mostly uses tractors as big as my (admittedly small) house is to exclude oneself from all.

Still, here is how I get along with non-Trumpers, Climate Activists™, and others who are supposed to be on "my side." I am called a "climate denier."
So - fuck it.

And of course, even as I drive those miles, applying fossil fuel to move mass at speed over long distances, I will be slower than the rest, slower than the speed limit, slower than my peers.
Does it count?
I guess it depends who's counting.

Spend fossil fuels to introduce the general public to the most energy efficient power source known to humankind. Plus or minus?
I don't know. But I'm going to do it.