Since the wheel was invented and the human race eventually shuffled away from the smelly-bottomed horse and its accompanying cart, or whatever it was tugging at the time, man (woman as well I suppose even though around that evolving mechanical period the fairer race were only allowed to invent arguments), had the desire to go faster and further. Seemingly overnight the good ol' horse suddenly lost its 'day job' to the internal combustion engine in one form or another and, so became the modern day transport world we live in today powered by now horrendously expensive fossil fuels.