To the market, by hsalnat.

Dimitri Orlov, giving a speech at the Long Now Foundation, Social Collapse Best Practices, points to two winners of the coming era of fuel shortage:

One final transportation idea: start breeding donkeys. Horses are finicky and expensive, but donkeys can be very cost-effective and make good pack animals. My grandfather had a donkey while he was living in Tashkent in Central Asia during World War II. There was nothing much for the donkey to eat, but, as a member of the Communist Party, my grandfather had a subscription to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and so that’s what the donkey ate. Apparently, donkeys can digest any kind of cellulose, even when it’s loaded with communist propaganda. If I had a donkey, I would feed it the Wall Street Journal.

As for cargo bikes, just ask London florists what was their preferred means of delivering Valentine roses.