TheScooterScoop

What’s better for the environment, a scooter or a car?

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Cecil from TheStraightDope.com takes on this common conundrum with a level-headed look at the facts. I could spoil it for you, but I think the whole story makes for fine reading. You might be surprised by his answer, I was pretty comfortable with it and I think he finally puts this argument to bed, at […]

Scooters vs. SUVs… POLLUTE!

Friday, October 24, 2008

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It’s a good old-fashioned pollute-off! Fox wanted to do a story on how scooters pollute more than the biggest SUV. I wanted to give scooters a chance to defend themselves. We gathered up a group of Austin’s best to eat pizza, drink beer and burn oil.

Finally a Hummer with better gas mileage than a scooter!

Monday, May 28, 2007

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Well, ok… it doesn’t have some of the luxuries of a normal Hummer; things like AC, leather seats, chrome rims, windows, an exhaust system, a fuel system or anything like that. It does have AM/FM CD player and will alllmost hit 15 MPH. You can check the specs here. Build yer own for about $200, […]