Scooter Calculator

The "Between Two Rivers Scooter Club" has put together a web application, with information drawn from the US Energy Information Administration, to give you an idea of the impact riding instead of driving has on the Earth and the US economy. It's worth a look, if nothing else. Based on the vehicle I drove before becoming a 365 day biker, here are my stats:

Samuel, based on the above information, you burn 175.44 gallons of fuel in your Yamaha Majesty each year, and that amount of fuel costs you $359.65. In your other vehicles you burn 0.00 gallons of fuel, which cost you $0.00.
If you did not have your bike, you would be forced to put 10,000.00 miles on your other vehicle each year. This would cost you $1,025.00 in fuel charges each year. Having your bike saves you $665.35 in fuel costs each year.
Having and using your scooter also has in impact on the economy. According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S.A. currently imports about 10 million barrels of oil each day. Each barrel of oil contains 42 gallons of crude. Each barrel produces about 21 gallons of gasoline, as well as other products.
If you did not use your bike, you would burn 500.00 gallons of fuel, but with your bike you only burn 175.44 gallons of gas each year. Therefore, using your bike conserves 324.56 gallons of gas each year. Translated into barrels of oil, that represents 15.46 barrels of oil that did not need to be refined for the gas you used.
If 655,180 people in this country rode a scooter like you, an entire days worth of oil imports into this country would not be required, resulting in more than $500 million dollars that the country would not need to devote towards foreign oil purchases.

Click the title link to try it for yourself.