A young waiter in Haute-Loire has found the perfect parade to limit his expenses in the face of soaring fuel prices: go to work on horseback.
Only one horse on the gray card. Louis Geneix, a resident of Lapte, in Haute-Loire, would he have found the ultimate trick to avoid the blow of a club at the pump? With the explosion in the price of fuel in recent days, the French are more and more reluctant to take the car to go to work.
But those who cannot do otherwise, must redouble their imagination and this is the case. The idea germinates in his head when the owner of the restaurant in which he works mentions his desire to change cars. There was a discussion with my boss: he had to change car during the week and I told him to take an electric car, given the price of diesel. He told me that I was calm because I had my horse”, he explains to France 3. Neither one nor two, the young waiter takes the sentence literally and decides to swap his clio for his mare.
15 kilometers of journey
“It took me less than an hour to come,” he says. Only about fifteen kilometers separate the meadow in which his mare, Eole, is from the brewery where he works.
I go horseback riding once a week. This summer, I think I will come at least for the midday services on horseback. For the evening, I won’t have a choice, I’ll have to take my car because I can’t come back at night on horseback.
My colleagues were a little surprised. They thought I couldn’t do it and when they saw me disembark on horseback, they couldn’t believe it. There are motorists who stopped to tell me that my approach was great. I did not expect this
An economic motivation
It must be said that the round trips on horseback do not cost him much compared to the liter of diesel.
“In December, I was doing about the month with 80 euros of diesel and there I doubled, or even more. Coming on horseback will change things. I was wondering if I could go to work, see if it was going to be profitable.” Because with its 1200 euros net, fuel-related expenses are increasingly heavy in its budget.
Like many French people, Louis wondered several times if coming to work with these increases would be profitable for a long time. And to finish: “I think it can give people ideas to use alternative means such as bicycles, scooters, rollerblades. There is also an ecological approach behind all this, to reduce our footprint. I do it for a valid reason.” Even if on horseback, comfort is not there, especially with winter temperatures.
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