From David Irving's website: http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/History_07/Henty_090207.html

Lynn Henty has heard, February 9, 2007, that Operation
Sea Lion was just Hitler's strategic bluff

Did Hitler really
plan to invade
England?

David Irving: "Hitler's War"
(Millennium Edition, 2002)

I READ an opinion that Hitler's positioning
of the canal barges in the French Channel ports was just a bluff, and
that he never really intended to invade England, do you have an
opinion on this?

A point of interest is that in the plans for Operation SEALION, a large
number of army horses for transport vehicles were to be shipped to
England, the Germans still being surprisingly dependant on horses for
transport

Lynn Henty

David Irving replies:

YES, if you read my books "Hitler's War" (Millennium
Edition, 2002) my Churchill biography, "Churchill's
War", vol. i: "Struggle for Power", will find the evidence
that supports this view. Sealion was a strategic
deception for the Eastern front campaign.

http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Hitler
http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Churchill

Horses: don't need gasoline, and can be eaten in emergency. Yuk.