Way ahead of you. My wife and I own three Trek bikes.

Just astounded by this:
Reading some news stories, and came across this article:

https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daniel-g ... 46035.html

Here is a quote from it:

"The oil complex. ExxonMobil may have lost the mantle as most valuable U.S. company to Apple, but its stock (here's a long-term chart) has been doing well, and the inexorable rise of oil has pushed its market capitalization above $400 billion. High crude prices mean large profit margins for companies that extract oil."

Price gouging??? Here in CA the price of a gallon of regular gas just passed the $4.45 mark at my local station... Premium gas- the kind I run in my motorcycle- $4.65

Question: IF the Oil Companies are making "Record Profits" how can they say it costs them more?
Passing on the cost of business means that the "profit margin" stays the same...
So I can only deduce that we (everyone that pays for gas) are getting ripped off.

As for the bicycle answer, I started a new thread to help anyone interested.

If you don't like the $6.00 gallon gas, buy a tiny little piece of crap that gets 40 MPG and as soon as 5,000 of them are sold, the oil men jack the price of gas up, not selling them as much as they were buying. need to keep oil selling to maintain hefty bank accounts.
Problem #1, the prez and staff refuse to cut back, they are the most wasteful, flying air force among a gigantic fleet for the rest equally wasteful and polluting on weekly if not daily hamburger runs and endless vacations for all the clan. they pollute the skies more in one day than all the cars, trucks and bikes in California does in a year, yet they can't control their addiction to power so they hike the fuel tax, insist you cut back. I will continue to drive my 14 MPG GMC V-8 as long as i can pay for it. Go green if you want to, I'm not falling for that!
Problem #2. My gawd folks, be careful on your 2 wheeler, there's a hundred thousand new bike buyers (not bikers, bike owners) trying to save a buck on gas every week buying a bike they can't ride without wobbling all over the road. up go the gas prices again and then they whine when they go back to their big comfortable, safe truck or caddy and the bike sits in the shed cause it might rain!!!!!
Who cares, I'll ride when I can and stay home and polish chrome when I can't afford it! Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! If you seriously want to see gas prices drop to $2.00 a gallon, everybody simply park your gas guzzler one extra day a week and in six months the only prices will be going down. long as you'll pay it, they'll raise it. The real problem, why is our Government buying at high prices and selling to china at a loss?

I bought the 40 mpg car... Parked the work van (chevy 350, 50 gallon tank).
I ride the 48 mpg bike... Highway mileage 38 city...
I ride a bicycle... for exercise and fun, but now that gas is up I replace a weekend ride on the mc with one on the bicycle.
Just getting to the point where fed up is starting to feel normal... and that is NOT a good thing.

And this gets worse every year. It's a race to the bottom. Just about the time they make stuff idiot proof, they make a new brand of idiot. It's cyclic. We got more RUBs, they make more bikes for RUB riders. The more RUB money out there, the more bikes aimed at the ever increasing RUB market...

And so it goes.

I'm a Harley guy, but I saw a new Triumph bike. A twin, about 850cc, I believe. Best new bike I've seen in years. We've forgotten what a motorcycle is all about. And saving gas is not going to re-energize the idea.

I have a problem with your logic, if using less gas with more efficient cars doesn't let the price go down then how does parking a vehicle once a week and using less gas make the price go down?

Not purchasing fuel decreases the demand and increases the supply - price goes down? probably not (I agree with you that they raise prices to maintain hefty bank accounts).
They have us by the short hairs - bent over the barrel and you guessed it - we don't even get a kiss first.
Replacing the fuel is the only way to make the price go down, but if you're not using the fuel anymore - who cares what it costs?

Solar panels that make electricity -> you use that power source to energize/charge/recharge a vehicle...
Now we take a soundtrack from our favorite v-twin pump it through a sub-woofer and your new "electric motorcycle" is the bike of the future... or not...

Truth is electric motors have more torque and run more efficiently that gas engines - just look at the mighty locomotives... diesel fuel powered engines turn generators that power electric drive motors, I guess having a freight car full of batteries isn't as cheap yet... but the day may be close at hand if the cost of fuel keeps going up.