<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/122dea7c-db42-4469-a342-e24c820ff378/532863AB-CD09-4278-B9EC-6E19D35B2521/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html" href="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html" style="font-size: 11px;">weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><H3 class='post-title'> High Gas Prices Lead to U.S. Scooter Boom </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><H2 class='date-header'>Friday, May 12, 2006</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><P class='MsoNormal'><st1:state st="on"><span style="" lang="EN-US">NEW YORK</span></st1:state><span style="" lang="EN-US"> - With gas prices above $3 a gallon, software engineer Daniel Fry has been commuting to work over the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Brooklyn</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Bridge</st1:placetype></st1:place> in a car pool of sorts. </span>It's actually more like a convoy — of motor scooters.<span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><SPAN lang='EN-US' style=''>"It's fun to ride in a group," said Fry, 28, who joins a group of riders for coffee early Friday mornings before commuting into <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:city> via scooter. "In a big mass of scooters people look out for you more."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><SPAN lang='EN-US' style=''>Fry is part of a growing community of scooter enthusiasts in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> and across the country who are taking to the streets in record numbers with gas prices so high. Fry fills up the 1.5-gallon gas tank of his scooter for under $5.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/05/high-gas-prices-lead-to-us-scooter.html"><SPAN lang='EN-US' style=''>"The funniest thing is pulling into a gas station behind an SUV and seeing them pay 75 bucks," he says.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/532863AB-CD09-4278-B9EC-6E19D35B2521/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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