As most of you bikers will notice the attached articles detailed info may
not apply to your region or choice of scooter.
But it's no surprise scooter sales are jumping out the door.
My feeling is people will stick with gas vehicles in any form and as long as
they possibly can. Electric has draw backs and one not mentioned frequently
is their is a national electrical grid over load point that would ...soon...
become apparent if a few million vehicles are 'plug ins' and then tapped in
every day and maybe twice a day. Also it takes a power source or energy form
to generate electricity and these plants are usually not 'clean' and hardly
plentiful.
Someone might suggest more generating plants and pronto. But then that means
more coal for generating energy and funds to build the plants. We apparently
can't build 'capital investments' using a VISA card.
Also we might have a few new national holidays..like National Electrical
Melt Down Day(s) if we seriously go electric for personal transportation.
So the coming scooters craze maybe just a gap filler until the Europeans and
maybe even those dreaded 'Indian's arrive with their multiple choice fleet
of midget gas cars. This new wave of 'Indian's maybe a greater threat than
those creepy crawly's we are building a fence to keep out so we can get jobs
in meat packing plants!
JUMPING OVER THE HOG!
And then if they are offering good gas or NG mileage us common folk will not
be considering moving up to a chrome 'Hog' from a scoot for the work ride, I
would think it will be more like a Fiat 600.
Also, this has happened before in our recent past but this time it will
stick. As world oil demand and which means Asia has built in a bottom on
crude oil demand. Crude oil closed Friday over $126 and that's $3 a gallon
fob for the unprocessed oil. Maybe a third of that ends up as a motor
vehicle fuel.
So those road warriors now going directly to the motor bike are the true
futuristic patriots and entitled to wear a American flag pinned on their
beanie. And if all this sounds third world-ish ...welcome, too the future!
----- Original Message -----
From: casingpoint
To: bajajscooter@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:49 AM
Subject: [bajajscooter] Quadrohprenia Has Crossed The Big Pond
Scootersalami vindicated:
http://money.guardian.co.uk/cars/story/0,11944,1529402,00.html
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