From MSNBC.COM: 

High gas prices lead to boom in motor scooters

Sales seen surging as pump prices top $3 a gallon

NEW YORK - With gas prices above $3 a gallon, software engineer Daniel Fry has been commuting to work over the Brooklyn Bridge in a car pool of sorts.

It’s actually more like a convoy — of motor scooters.

“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 Manhattan via scooter. “In a big mass of scooters people look out for you more.”

Fry is part of a growing community of scooter enthusiasts in New York 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.

“The funniest thing is pulling into a gas station behind an SUV and seeing them pay 75 bucks,” he says.

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