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I have a 120 mile commute, almost all bikes I've had got 45 mpg, 650cc singles to 1000cc 4's. My cars get 30 mpg or better, 4 gallons cars/day 2.5 gallons for the bikes. 1.5 gallon saved or $5 that barely covers the daily cost of the tires.
If you have a car that gets 30 mpg or better it's hard to save enough money with bikes or scooters to justify the purchase (atleast until gas hits $5-6 a gallon).
On the other hand if your commute is too short, you don't use enough gas even with a 10 mpg SUV with 10 mile daily commute, you only burn 1 gallon, so the most you can save is less than 1 gallon a day, 20 gallons a month, $70 dollars saved per month will take a long time to pay for even a $1500 scooter. Roughly 22 months(riding it every day) to pay for the investment, and it would have 4200 miles on it. Will a $1500 scooter last that long?
If you have to pay for parking a car and don't for a bike/scooter that might be the biggest saving potential.
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