From: "Mark" 

Oh, hell yea an H-D sounds like a good idea to me, I didn't mean to imply
that I liked the higher prices! My Kawi Z-1 circa the '70s got less than
30mpg around town and not much more than that on the highway (can't
remember the tank size at the moment, but round trip to the beach of choice
at the time was 140 miles and I couldn't do it without going on reserve), I
don't think H-Ds at the time were much better, though they may be better
now.

"Geo"  wrote in message news:44861dc1{at}w3.nls.net...
> All I know is my oldest son works for harley davidson and they are
> experiencing record sales right now. People are buying bikes to cut down
> on
> gas consumption.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:4484c80f{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I think the average person drives about 12K a year. If we assume 20mpg,
>> they're using about 600 gallons a year and let's assume they're earning
>> $40K. So at $1.75 a gallon they were spending about 2.6% of their gross;
> at
>> $3.50/gal twice that, or 5.3%
>>
>> If the average person feels a pinch from that they can do 1 of 2 things,
>> drive a bit less or move up to a 40mpg vehicle which drops them back down
> to
>> that same 2.6% of gross pay that it was when they were paying $1.75 for
>> their fuel "addiction."
>>
>> The point being, fuel costs are not nearly the percentage of income they
>> once were, just from hazy memory, back in the '70s when the oil embargo
> hit,
>> people were earning more like $10K and getting closer to 12mpg which
>> translates to about 3% of gross at 30 cents per gallon and about 6% of
> gross
>> after it went up to 60 cents per gallon.
>>
>> Which explains why the economy today continues apace and will contine to
> do
>> so.
>>
>> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:4484ba57$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
>> > news:44846b53{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >
>> >> Oil is at $73 a barrel.
>> >
>> > this is actually a good thing, everyone on the planet who uses oil is
> now
>> > concerned about using less.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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