Gas prices and scooter sales

With gas prices at record highs, "The Takeaway" looks at how more people are coping with the two-wheeled alternative: the scooter.

In times of rising fuel prices, Americans are shifting from gas guzzlers to smaller cars. How small? John Hockenberry from 'The Takeaway' went to Scooter Bottega in Brooklyn, N.Y., to investigate. Hockenberry gets the answers and gets taken for a ride.

"The Takeaway with John Hockenberry & Adaora Udoji" is a fresh new morning drive-time news program. Produced by WNYC/New York and Public Radio International in partnership with the BBC World Service, the "New York Times and WGBH/Boston, "The Takeaway" provides a breadth and depth of world, national and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.

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