Use Less Gasoline

I knew I'd be able to find recent press connecting scooters and the current U.S. gas-price problem. This article comes from the Associated Press, via the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, Aug. 23, 2005. Their title was "Motor scooters gaining popularity in U.S.: Some owners gas up just once or twice a month," and the writer is Joe Kafka. It covers all the bases:

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.

I was amused to see that the dateline for the article is Pierre, the capital of South Dakota -- a state that is known to get some serious snow in the winter!