Following in the footsteps of "one ups-manship" - I use no petrochemical fuels
to get to work at all. I use animal/vegtable/mineral fuel (food and fluids)
walking from one end of the house to my office. I telecommute. I would posit
that if 1/3 of the IT professionals in the U.S. could telecommute the oil
imports from a certain South American country could be eliminated.

Quoting Gary Sielaff <[log in to unmask]>:

> Mine scooter is a bicycle.  About 12 miles on 2 slices of bread and a
> tablespoon of peanut butter.  Don't know exactly what that works out to be.
> I am sure not 80 miles for 3 bucks, but I do burn calories.
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Skiba, Bruno
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Tuesday humor (and it's just humor)
>
> I recently bought a scooter to ride to work.
> The thing that sold me was averaging 80+ mpg.
> I'm only a few miles from work so it saves me time and money.
> Even the larger scooters or cycles get 50+mpg, but my budget was <$1,500
> and I got it for $1,400 with 250km on the dial.
>
> In the two months since I got it I would have spend on average $30 per
> tank to fillup my (admittedly old) Jetta.
> And I tend to fillup a couple of times a week.
>
> I regularly go a week on 1 gallon with the scooter (~$3.00 for premium.)
>
> Sure, I get some odd looks and double-takes here and there and some kids
> feel the need to laugh and point.
> But I'm smiling every time I buy my "one gallon, please!" for the week.
>
> Who's laughing now?
> ;-)
>
> --Bruno

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