This mode of transportation may rival the expenses incurred by somebody who chooses SOV* transportation in a Hummer H2 or big ol' pickup truck.
Here's the formula:
- Buy a high-MPG scooter to minimize the impact of $4 gas ($2500 or $3000, maybe?)
- Ride it over the course of the summer, maybe 2000 miles. Indeed, it gets 60mpg or so, and saves you significantly at the gas pump.
- When the weather turns for the worse in the fall, park it in the side yard and let it go "back to nature" over the winter.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXFSS_XLN1oX-_sq_b_py50f0PKlrWAFnCJluwxILQ41_Puo7QLLgATEKzy_cS4uhhAw0KyyXMiehQIiqdLFstL-i2naa3Z_fOLRVTvY3V2ziotwgIfnduUzzen_DI6KvZy-wAXN9eNc/s400/scooter-gone-to-seed.jpg)
It would've been much cheaper just to grit your teeth and spend $125 each time, to fill up the tank on that monster vehicle with doors.
* Single Occupant Vehicle
Here's the formula:
- Buy a high-MPG scooter to minimize the impact of $4 gas ($2500 or $3000, maybe?)
- Ride it over the course of the summer, maybe 2000 miles. Indeed, it gets 60mpg or so, and saves you significantly at the gas pump.
- When the weather turns for the worse in the fall, park it in the side yard and let it go "back to nature" over the winter.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXFSS_XLN1oX-_sq_b_py50f0PKlrWAFnCJluwxILQ41_Puo7QLLgATEKzy_cS4uhhAw0KyyXMiehQIiqdLFstL-i2naa3Z_fOLRVTvY3V2ziotwgIfnduUzzen_DI6KvZy-wAXN9eNc/s400/scooter-gone-to-seed.jpg)
It would've been much cheaper just to grit your teeth and spend $125 each time, to fill up the tank on that monster vehicle with doors.
* Single Occupant Vehicle
5 comments:
This is a good example of "penny-wise, pound-foolish".
Many tend to vastly underestimate the cost of transportation (focusing on the price of gasoline, when in reality it encompasses so much more).
Hey, a scooter is my "other" 2-wheeled vehicle, so I must defend it.
I get 100 mpg. I bought a full-face helmet and rode it to work at least once every month except May and June last year (and those were the months I rode my bicycle every day).
The scooter cost $2000 and I saved that much in gas in the first two years, compared to my pick-em-up truck. So, how is that penny-wise and pound-foolish?
Not to mention that I originally bought the scooter for my high-school-aged son and the money I saved on insurance alone over two years paid for the scooter.
Michael... I bet you baby that scooter too... don't you? (Or at least have some sheltered parking for it.)
The point I'm trying to make (and I'm sure bob t understands) is... even a scooter isn't "disposable." And it's expensive to consider only the MPG.
My "other car" is a sweet Harley-Davidson motorsickle. It has a prominent spot in the garage. (It gets 40+ MPG, which would be pretty respectable on the scale, but is DISMAL compared with a bicycle's infinite MPG!)
I put about 6000 miles on it a year. However, up to 4000 of those miles are over the course of 10 days or so each summer.
I'd love to have a sweet Vespa, and load it up with auxiliary lighting, chrome, etc. (Think "Quadrophenia.")
OK, you're right. I keep my scooter in the garage and I have a cover for it when I have to park it at work in the rain.
So, I'm not treating it as disposable. I see the "disposable" mentality in scooters, bikes, cars, etc.
But, since a former co-worker used to call me "Scooter Boy" I just had to defend it!!!! :)
You should wear the title Scooter Boy with pride! Sounds a little "superhero-ish"!!
- BIKEBOY
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