Gas Prices So High in Finland One Woman Gets Around With Reindeer – Futurism

"How many carrots per mile does that model get?"CPM (Carrots Per Mile)

One woman in Lapland, the frozen northernmost region in Finland, went viral after posting a video of her reindeer-powered sled. Janita Kenttl said on Tik Tok she was traveling to the supermarket the old school way because its more eco-friendly and because gas prices are so high.

When they priced the gasoline 2e/liter and you live in Lapland with long distance everywhere, Kenttl captioned the video, which has more than 600,000 likes and 4,700 comments.

In the clip Kenttl wears a traditional Luuhka, a cold-weather cape sometimes worn by indigenous Smi people of Finland. In the vid, her 3-year-old reindeer Solina pulls the sled along a beautiful snowy landscape, weaving a path between trees, his antlers protruding above a furry coat and white tail.

How many carrots per mile does that model get? one commenter quipped.

According to one tracker, Finlands gasoline cost as much as $8.00 USD per gallon as of early January 2022. If, as Kenttl says, many residents must travel long distances to even get to a grocery stores, its easy to see why such an eco-friendly alternative would be preferable. With oceans hotter than ever before, reducing emissions must be a top priority, and Kenttls team could teach us a thing or two.

Kenttl, president and COO of the Lapland tour company Eanan, says on her site that shes always looking for ways to make her operation more efficient and eco-friendly because nature is everything to her. The team uses reindeer and husky sled dogs for their tours.

In other words, dont fix it if it aint broke. The Smi people have survived in a harsh winter wilderness longer than any car company has existed, so we figure theyre the experts in effective, eco-friendly transport.

Mush!

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