  We investigate the local geometry of a pair of independent contact structures
on 3-manifolds under maps that independently preserve each contact structure.
We discover that such maps are homotheties on the contact 1-forms and we
discover differential invariants associated to such structures under these
equivalences. This allows us to generalize the notion of contact circles and
(equilateral) hyperbolas to contact ellipses and hyperbolas. Moreover, these
invariants may sometimes be used to define a complete local normal form and in
at least one case are related to symplectic structures through a natural
$e$-structure on a bundle arising from the Cartan equivalence method. Finally,
there is a type of natural Riemannian metric (but not necessarily the
well-known associated contact metric) and we discover certain curvatures may be
written in terms of the bi-contact differential invariants.
