Saving money on gas will take a long time right?

Just Looking things over

Not so fast!  Yes it is true that if you have a fuel efficient car one that gets lets say 30 mpg and if your scooter gets around 80 mpg and you drive 8,000 scooter miles your first year your math would look like this;  8,000/30 = 266.7 gallons of fuel used, 8,000/80 = 100 gallons.  Then we take an average price of gas at lets say $3.50 this comes to car = $933.45 versus the scooter at 350.00 for a total scooter savings of $583.45 not bad but the scooter fully equipped taxes paid plus insurance = $1,600.  Here is where the real savings comes from at least I hope.  The car at least for me must be fixed by a auto mechanic, and on average almost every used car I have had cost me on average $1,000.00 bucks a year (think new tires, breaks, battery, muffler, engine).  Now the total savings is looking better, gas plus auto service repair bills being lowered because you are keeping the miles off of the used car and putting them on a new scooter makes for a savings the first year of $1,583.45.  And if you could drive the scooter more than the estimated 8,000 miles you might be able to break the first year even point.  Finally lets compare scooter parts such as batteries, tires, air breathers, and oil changes to the same products for a car.  The price of car tires say on average four tires would be around $400.00, scooter tires brand new are $100.00 scooter oil changes around $4.00 auto oil changes $30.00.  For me at least this appears to be a no brainier.  Year one will save me big time over the same miles in a car.  And for every year after that it just goes ballistic in savings!