Gasoline pushing $3 gallon? Why worry?

So asks Joe Kafka of the AP who writes an article that has shown up in no less than 94 publications according to Google news. Here is the Google news search so you can pick which one you want to read. From the article:

Gasoline pushing $3 gallon? Why worry? Buy a motor scooter like thousands of other Americans and stretch that single gallon of gas a week or more.

"As people start driving them, they start finding more reasons to use them," said Doug Day, owner of Scooter Centrale and Vespa Hartford in Plainville, Conn.

"They're practical, easy to park and get great gas mileage. I put $5 worth of gas into mine when it's totally empty, compared to $50 in my SUV."

As gasoline prices soar, the popularity of peppy, fuel-sipping motor scooters _ most easily get 50 miles per gallon and some of the smaller ones get up to 80 mpg _ is soaring. Sales, estimated at 86,000 last year in the U.S. have doubled from 2000, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council...

MIC spokesman Mike Mount said the market gained momentum when upscale Italian scooter maker Piaggio re-entered the U.S. market with the legendary Vespa scooter in 2001. Motorcycle makers such as Honda and Yamaha also began offering new lines of scooters in recent years.

Comments

[Moses]

I saw that story, too, and noted the lack of scooters other than those sold at the high-end or low-end of the sales spectrum.

http://www.mirocat.com/2005/08/scooter-sightings.html
Yowling from the Fencepost: Scooter Sightings.

On another note: Thanks very much for putting up a post promoting Skooter Du 6. It was another great rally.

http://www.mirocat.com/2005/08/rally-blogging-day-one-well-maybe-its.html
YftF: Rally Blogging: Day One... Well, maybe it's Night One... oh, whatever...

http://www.mirocat.com/2005/08/rally-blogging-day-two.html
YftF: Rally Blogging: Day Two.

http://www.mirocat.com/2005/08/rally-blogging-day-three.html
YftF: Rally Blogging: Day Three.

http://www.mirocat.com/2005/08/scooter-rally-ends-rally-recovery.html
YftF: Scooter rally ends... Rally recovery begins.

Also, people's pics of the rally are available at Scoot.net:
http://scoot.net/gallery/2005/08/skooterdu/alltinyindex.html
Skooter Du 6, Flip Your Wig 2005 pictures.

Enjoy.