The high cost of gasoline fuels a trend toward more economical scooters and motorcycles. Grady Maples was fed up with high gas prices. Maples, 54, of Tulsa, took matters into his own hands and ...

High gasoline prices are driving sales of motor scooters. They get much better mileage than cars — up to 100 mpg. We know gas prices are going up. People are looking for ways to save. More are taking ...

As long as it’s not raining, New Yorkers buzzing around the city on motor scooters can laugh at guzzler-bound drivers. With gas prices rising, customers are flocking to stores that sell street-legal ...

PIERRE, S.D. — Gasoline pushing $3 gallon? Why worry? Buy a motor scooter like thousands of other Americans and stretch that single gallon of gas a week or more. “As people start driving them, they ...

For reasons both environment- and wallet-related, motor scooter ridership is zooming (along with transit and bike ridership, natch). Between 1997 and 2007, annual sales of new scooters jumped from ...

The St. Paul woman bought her bright yellow scooter “for fun” three years ago but has turned it into her daily driver as fuel prices rise. “This is my best friend,” she said of her ride. She said she ...