$75 To Fill Up The Burb!

It will be ok Sueshore, I think in another thread there was a vote taken for the orange line -- this one will miss you guys!

Here's a picture of Otter's piggy bank after filling up the burb 🙂

It's only getting worse :pissed:

Tip....I'm sure the locals know this, but visitors as well....start looking at your gas gauge today just in case. Don't put your head in the sand....but please don't freak out either!!!

I must already have my head in the sand.

I didn't know about this storm until this morning....

I guess I'm in denial.

I need to win that lottery so that I can buy a scooter that gets 50-60mpg. With a Fuel Capacity of 1.3 gallons, I don't see a fill up ever costing more than $7.

My wife drove a baby blue new beetle convertible last year, I could no more drive that car than the scooter w/ flowers shown on Honda's website without what remains of my manhood being called into question. Have they got one w/ a barbed wire logo?

My wife drove a baby blue new beetle convertible last year, I could no more drive that car than the scooter w/ flowers shown on Honda's website without what remains of my manhood being called into question.

I drove a beetle in the early-mid '70s (that was after the '70 cuda and then the Austin-Healy 3000 MkIII) - and the ladies loved it. One told me she figured that since I didn't feel the need to sport the visible mechanical stuff, there must be something more interesting under my hood. ;-)

My wife drove a baby blue new beetle convertible last year, I could no more drive that car than the scooter w/ flowers shown on Honda's website without what remains of my manhood being called into question. Have they got one w/ a barbed wire logo?

I guess you could wrap the barbed wire around this Ruckus, which is very road warriorish.

I guess you could wrap the barbed wire around this Ruckus, which is very road warriorish.

Thats the first cool looking scooter I've seen. :cool:

Thats the first cool looking scooter I've seen. :cool:

That Honda Big Ruckus will set you back about $5,500+.
The Ruckus below is only around $2,000 and comes in night Camo color. :lol:

That Honda Big Ruckus will set you back about $5,500+.
The Ruckus below is only around $2,000 and comes in night Camo color. :lol:

:shock: For $5,500 you could get a "real" motorcycle

That Honda Big Ruckus will set you back about $5,500+.
The Ruckus below is only around $2,000 and comes in night Camo color. :lol:

Wonder how they do in the sand. :floor:

I am sure the silver color will blend nicely into the color of the road, esp in a light fog or rain. I think the only color for a car like that is fire-engine red, after all, you are a Peacock if you are driving that car.

I'd do Gator orange if they made it, but I can't do red. Here in GA they'd think I'm a Bulldawg!

Originally Posted by Smiling JOe
That Honda Big Ruckus will set you back about $5,500+.
The Ruckus below is only around $2,000 and comes in night Camo color.


Or if they pull a boat

You could always fork over $8,500+ and get a really cool scooter like this Honda Silverwing with ABS brakes. With a 582cc liquid-cooled four-stroke parallel-twin engine, I bet it will come close to hitting 90-100mph. :shock:

Or, for $1,000 more, you can get an additional 60 mph (not mpg) on the CBR600F4i.

However, insurance is a different topic and is just another reason why I like the Honda Metropolitan II for $1,850.

When we lived in FL years ago, my husband rode a motorcycle and they didn't require insurance. Have the laws changed?

You could always fork over $8,500+ and get a really cool scooter like this Honda Silverwing with ABS brakes. With a 582cc liquid-cooled four-stroke parallel-twin engine, I bet it will come close to hitting 90-100mph. :shock:

Or, for $1,000 more, you can get an additional 60 mph (not mpg) on the CBR600F4i.

However, insurance is a different topic and is just another reason why I like the Honda Metropolitan II for $1,850.

I nearly killed myself on one of those things in Key West a few years back.

When we lived in FL years ago, my husband rode a motorcycle and they didn't require insurance. Have the laws changed?

Currently, most states are allowing low horse power scooters to go uninsured and unlicensed. Be careful. The Honda Metropolitan II, in the photo above with the Hibiscus print, is set up to do just that, but it's almost identical twin, must be licensed.

That Honda Big Ruckus will set you back about $5,500+.
The Ruckus below is only around $2,000 and comes in night Camo color. :lol:

Cool :cool: The night Camo would be a nice complement to (and look great towing) SJ's Dune Patrol skiff:

Currently, most states are allowing low horse power scooters to go uninsured and unlicensed. Be careful. The Honda Metropolitan II, in the photo above with the Hibiscus print, is set up to do just that, but it's almost identical twin, must be licensed.

Some guy in our neighborhood here says the limit is 49-50ccs, and there is a mini-industry devoted to dropping more powerful scooter motors in after you are registered so as to skate the law.

I nearly killed myself on one of those things in Key West a few years back.

Ok, LL you keep teasing us with the "I nearly killed myself on one of those things in Key West", You NEED to tell us the story!!!! 😀

Ok, LL you keep teasing us with the "I nearly killed myself on one of those things in Key West", You NEED to tell us the story!!!! 😀

I'll work on it in a minute after I get off this conference call. :cool:

I'll work on it in a minute after I get off this conference call. :cool:

Conference call about fish tables, tackle, or boat motors??

I'll work on it in a minute after I get off this conference call. :cool:

I thought you left your desk job :idontno:

I thought you left your desk job :idontno:

Not quite yet. It'll be around he holidays. But I'm gettin there!

Nope, this is a conference call about something stupid nobody cares about. I'm sure you're all familiar.....

One of my crazy friends emailed this to me today... worth a try????? Sorry its so long. :cool:

Hi friends....this is worth a try. Some friends of ours started this about three weeks ago. Pass it on - we can use the help.

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action



Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May!

The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.



Please read it and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.75 for regular unleaded in my town.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50-$1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace.... not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!

And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.



How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.



Here's the idea:



For the rest of this year, DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.



But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp (sic) out on me at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!



I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!



If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people and DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. That's all.



How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.



If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.



PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

Consider that while this might hurt Exxon & Mobil - The first to be hurt would likely be the "little" guys who own the stations. They could lose their livelyhood and emloyees their jobs. :idontno: