Gas Powered Scooters - Answer to High Fuel Prices?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008MSN recently published an article regarding the high cost of fuel and whether gas powered scooters would catch on in North America, much like they have in Europe and Asia. You can read the article here:
You know the old term "history repeats itself"; It's true. Rewind for a minute to the post World War II era. Italy was facing a fuel crisis as they tried to rebuild the countries economy after the devastation of the war. At the time, a company named Piaggio was building aircraft for the war efforts and after their own building was bombed, they had to rethink their business strategy. The high fuel prices at the time were hindering the growth of the economy and something needed to be done. It was at that time that Piaggio transitioned into building economical gas powered scooters as a solution to the high gas prices. Their idea worked and within a decade, over 10,000 of the little scooters were sold.
Today we know them as the trendy little Vespa. Will a Vespa motor scooter or other gas powered scooter be in your future as a way to deal with high gas prices? You may have no other choice. It currently costs over $50 to fill up even a small car and if gas rises any further it will become just too expensive to drive a car.