If you haven’t noticed gas prices have been going up and up.  When I bought my truck back in 99 gas was just a little over a dollar a gallon.  It has a thirty five gallon tank.   Thats right instead of a forty dollar fill up like when I bought the truck it is close to hundred.  Now I actually use my truck for the purpose it was designed for.  I pull a boat with it.  It goes 4x4 on back country roads for fishing, hiking and mountain biking.  Not like most of the SUV you see out there these days that are just big gas sucking cars for people.  If I had the means I would get a car that gets better gas millage for when I am not doing the above listed.  The way gas prices are getting, the cost to fill my truck is going to be almost a car payment.  Okay end of rant.  This isn’t a real alternative for me but it is cool.  Someone has designed a little engine that fits inside the front wheel of your bicycle.  It will hit 20 miles an hour and the big thing is it gets 200 miles to the gallon.  I don’t think I could pull the boat with it but if you had short commute to work and didn’t like the idea of getting all sweaty because you had to pedal this may work for you.  It will set you back $400 but with just a few trips to work on this and not your SUV you will have it payed off in savings in no time.

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