Mainly because I was extremely turned off by prices, warranties, maintenance, and reliability. I'm not cheap. I just don't like to waste money by stumbling around in unfamiliar places. So, anyway, I just bought a scooter. It's a cheapo, second hand, but I had it checked out at a shop that was recommended to me and everything checks out fine. At any rate its maintenance will be a new hobby.
I've been tracking my fuel spending and driving habits over the past couple of months. Even if I don't reduce the distances I'm going, I'm still going to save on the order of 250 dollars a month.
And the savings will only increase as fuel goes up. It's funny. My limit was $4.00 dollars. At four dollars a gallon, that was my absolute limit for the vehicle I currently have. Coincidentally, today, with the handshake, and the title exchange, the average price in Baton Rouge for unleaded ticked past $4.02.
Digressing every so slightly.
If this whole meteoric oil price thing turns out to be an Enron style price fixing with culpable American corporations in on it, then some actual suits need to go before firing squads. Actual firing squads. Cheap gas is more American than baseball and pie and Jesus. We have an inalienable right to cheap gas, endowed by our creator.
That being said, now I'm going to go tool around the roads aimlessly on a little machine that makes 80 miles to the gallon. Pictures, later, if I'm not annihilated by a H3(miles to the gallon)
