Carto-mobile Engineering.

It was a Thursday afternoon, I thought I would jus drop by a foodstuff shop to grab a drink to quench my thirst. There was ample parking space and neatly fitted my car into one of the allocated spaces, got a drink n started sipping in those drops like a mad animal who has been wandering for water for days. A very sporty looking SUV came by and parked next to my jalopy. The guy got out and steamed inside the shop. Now something really made me look at him up and down like a child lost in Disney land. He was all fine but it’s the car, not because it’s a very extravagant sports car but he has left his engine running and took his on sweet time to get back. I just wished if this was someplace in India. I’m sure he wouldn’t find the car in the next wink of his eye. Well I was jus wondering how much fuel he would be wasting where fuel prices are getting expensive day by day and production has decreased due to the downfall of the economy. I can remember my neighbor who ended up substituting his car for a bike to office due to the sky high rise in prices of fuel in India. The rise can be compared to the tall buildings visible in New York, Dubai or any cosmopolitan city for that matter. It may not be the same here but my chimera takes me to the wildest of all imaginations like what if the prediction given by geologists that oil would be available for the next forty years only to only next week!! Well if its next week oil prices would be much more expensive than an airline ticket would cost you to and fro. Well let it be compared in sync with the costliest diamond. What would people travel in? For the next one week people driving cars would be regarded as billionaires no matter what car they drive on the roads or be it even some debris of some old 1940’s Opel. But the week after that even they would be put to shame. The country’s only farmers who once used to hide their bullock carts and carts pulled by the domestic animals in compunction would be the one’s who wouldn’t be worried about. To who once using the road was forbidden, would rule the roads. We would end up having bullock-taxi’s, donkey-cab’s and so on. Just like how we have the fastest cars like buggati veron and Porsche to name a few the carts pulled by horses would join that league in that era and would be regarded as the fastest ever. The once lost tradition of manufacturing carts business would swing up in boom. Car showrooms would make al the space they have to showcase new carts of varying sizes and designs to cater to the customer needs. They would be even more expensive than cars so from then people owning carts would be regarded as the wealthy lot. Forbes list of the richest people would completely overturn and cart manufactures and people associated with the production of cart accessories would be substituting those places.

Youngsters would be cursing their self for the amount of fuel they have wasted on by un-necessary acceleration and speeding and not switching of their cars while parked for a while since they will miss all the fun of driving a car with their date. The next generation would hardly know how it feels to be inside a car. The carts of the era would come fully equipped with a fan surrogating the air conditioners in the cars and also with a air horn. They would be having electric lights as head lamps powered by a dynamo which would be connected to the wheel of the carts jus like how the light works in a bicycle. The same power generated would be used to play a music system. Managers and CEO’s would be coming to office and meetings on them (I just can’t wait to see how my CEO fits in that) and sales people would have to travel on a bicycle which would be a tiring task. Getting a promotion would not only enable them a hike in a salary but also the possibility of getting a car oops I mean a cart! People would start working hard to earn that extra penny and promotion to avail the offer of getting a cart just like how people now are least bothered about wasting oil and look out for new cars. Major car manufactures would end up re-branding their names as Toyocart, Porschcart, Lambocart, Mercedocart, Chevycart, Chryslecart, Lexcart and so on. It would be fun to see TV advertisements showcasing the latest carts in town. I just can’t wait to hear how they describe the features and what would be used for technical terms like horsepower brakes and so on. Petrol stations would be a place where carts can be serviced and surprisingly we would them selling hay and grass which would be the fuel for the poor animal pulling the cart. Agriculture would reach greater heights and the green revolution which happens to be a dumb and deaf language would now be echoed to every corner of the world.

Norman Borlaug and M.S Swaminathan who started the green revolution in Mexico and India respectively in the late 40’s would be regarded as the father of the era’s fuel generators. University’s would bring up a new courses on cartomobile engineering just like automobile engineering and we would have diploma, bachelors, masters and PhDs in them leaving no stone unturned. Farmers and owners of carts for decades would be giving guest lectures and act as visiting faculties in universities about the mechanism of how cart’s work and run. I’m sure it would be pretty hilarious but we are laughing at our own stupidity. Only if we save this very fuel today this won’t happen tomorrow and it would just be a mere wild dream. We aren’t still late infact and been humans we can act immediately to make that 40 years to 120 years by saving all we can. This not only goes for fuel but all kinds of wastages we do today like electricity, water, nature and so on. Everything is a chain reaction and if one fails the next on the table would surely collide before you could wink. This is truly a fuel for thought as Andrew Carnegie say’s “It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”