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Title: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Ruffus on August 31, 2024, 12:30:59 PM
Good to live close to a City where scooters have priority....!🛴👍 Cordiali saluti da Italia??.
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Neil955i on August 31, 2024, 04:28:59 PM
It would be Ruffus, but our current Government seems to hate cars & bikes with a passion ULEZ’s all over the place, low traffic density zones and now a hike in petrol tax. Misery is living here now. George Orwell was out 40 years on his prediction for dystopia!
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on August 31, 2024, 07:13:24 PM
Here in SW Ohio I get inordinately happy whenever I see a scooter.
Recently it happened when I  passed one of Honda's new Trail Cubs, and in the proper Honda red.....then I discovered it belongs to a nearby neighbor!!
Just waiting for him to leave his garage open - all the invitation I need to stop for a visit!
Photos of French, Spanish and Italian streets filled with parked scooters .....is just too much to comprehend!

Thanks for the photo Ruffus!
So many big wheel scooters. So few without big wheels!

Stig
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Iahawk on August 31, 2024, 09:08:29 PM
thanks for sharing the picture, Ruffus, that type of scene is completely foreign to us here in the states!
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: CROSSBOLT on September 03, 2024, 01:27:13 PM
How much does gasoline cost in Italy, Ruffus?

Great picture!
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Ruffus on September 03, 2024, 01:48:02 PM
Gas (benzina verde) from €1.77 to €2.20 per liter
(ca.1/4 US gal).
Depends which region and company. Autostrada fuelstations are most expensive.
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Neil955i on September 03, 2024, 01:58:54 PM
Gas (benzina verde) from €1.77 to €2.20 per liter
(ca.1/4 US gal).
Depends which region and company. Autostrada fuelstations are most expensive.

Got you beaten there Ruffus, currently £1.47 Diesel & £1.42 Petrol (Gasoline) per litre.  200 miles costs me about £15 on the DTX360
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on September 03, 2024, 04:16:42 PM
Got you beaten there Ruffus, currently £1.47 Diesel & £1.42 Petrol (Gasoline) per litre.  200 miles costs me about £15 on the DTX360

$0.459 US gallon.

(https://i.postimg.cc/vZCLsSZy/GAS.jpg)
2020...something to do with Covid demand/supply.
My grocery card knocked $1.00 off the normal price of $1.459.

@$3.00 / gallon  here now.

Stig
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Ruffus on September 03, 2024, 05:11:33 PM

Stig, its not the relative high fuel price which burdens us here in Europe, its just the imminent pressure of our gvts to push green without caring about individual traffic and needs. Like Neil rightly wrote, we are simply hated to drive individually.

(https://i.postimg.cc/vZCLsSZy/GAS.jpg)
2020...something to do with Covid demand/supply.
My grocery card knocked $1.00 off the normal price of $1.459.

@$3.00 / gallon  here now.

Stig
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Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: monkeybongos on September 04, 2024, 11:04:45 AM

Understandable to discourage driving solo in 4 wheel vehicles.  But not so on two wheels, that should be encouraged.
Title: Re: SR (scooter related) TRIESTE
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on September 04, 2024, 11:11:02 AM
Was surprised to learn that the USA is the world's largest producer of oil....and is sitting on more reserves than even Russia.
Still,  California will stop sales of new gas powered cars in 11 years.
Stig