Last Saturday I attended to a concert at the Greek amphitheater. We saw the Four Tops and Al Green (great concert). After the concert my cargo van was on empty so I stopped at a gas station in Hollywood and began to pump gas. To my surprise after the pump stopped, I looked at how much gas I had putted and I almost fainted. Eighty-four dollars!!! Would you believe that? I took a double take at the pricing hoping that due to old age my eyes were wrong. I opened my eyes again and still saw 84.00 dollars. I quietly and very confused got in my van and drove away. I was no longer happy about the concertâ??
Next day in a casual conversation with a customer she came into our scooter shop looking for a scooter. She drove a Chevy Tahoe and was looking for some economy. Me wanting to vent I shared my experience with gas prices and she scared me even more telling me about a report that she had seen on TV. The reporter was saying that gas prices at the pump were expected to reach the 5.00 dollar mark by next May. Imagine that. Five dollars at the pump.
Recently Iâ?™ve noticed huge incentives by Ford, Chevrolet and other automakers promoting their SUVs with discounts of up to 7,000 dollars or more on purchases of their non-efficient gas sucking vehicles. Are prices been driven perhaps by the unpopularity of these vehicles due to gas prices? I think so. I think people are becoming more conscious about gas pricing. I also think that Americans have a limit. A limit to how much they are willing to show off their SUV and begin driving Hybrid model vehicles looking to save a few bucks.
Scooter popularity has soared to high limits. In our store we have seen an increase interest in scooters. The big majority of this people were not driven by nostalgic feelings of riding scooters when they were young or by far memories of some family members with a scooter; these people are being driven by economics. A scooter provides you with an excellent alternate method to automobiles. You can easily justify the purchase of a scooter if you do a lot of around town driving.
Well, let me know what you think.
Javier
