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02-27-2011, 11:03 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' International CCD
Lapeer
, Michigan
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soldiermedic
Carol,
With my current school situation, selling many "Airstream resto tools", and wanting to spend full time with my family, I am likely to have someone else do the work for us.
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Wont that be lovely! I love those 13 segment Airstreams too. And gas prices wont even be an issue since you wont need a heavy tow vehicle...
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02-27-2011, 01:39 PM
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Islander
2005 28' International CCD
Deer Harbor
, ORCAS ISLAND WA
Join Date: Feb 2009
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$$ for fuel
this past year on a full time basis we spent $15,000 for 50,000 (approximate) miles of travel...that is $.30 per mile and i suppose gas was an average of $2.90...cheaper than property taxes
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and the Four P's(Paula, Phoenix and Peabody II and Pearl)…Peabody is here…..
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02-27-2011, 01:55 PM
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Rivet Master
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Sioux Falls
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When I started buying gas for my own car, gas was 28.9 cents a gallon.
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02-27-2011, 02:35 PM
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1969 31' Sovereign
Broken Arrow
, Oklahoma
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Its not the gas to go camping (well sort of) its the trickle down effect that will add to the cost of everything.
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02-27-2011, 04:24 PM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' Safari SE
Central
, Connecticut
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,652
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I'm a bit more worried about the cost of heating oil - maybe it's time to go geothermal...
Although if the price of gas goes up and stays up, our future plans for a newer 23' Serenity (4700 lbs!!!) might instead move towards a renovation of a nice light older trailer...
Tom
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02-27-2011, 04:33 PM
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2002 30' Classic S/O
Garden Valley
, Idaho
Join Date: Jul 2010
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At $5 gas imagine what diesel will cost.....maybe $7 or $210 for a 30 gallon tankful.
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2002 Airstream Classic 30' w/SO #2074
2007 Kubota 900 RTV
1996 Ford Bronco
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02-27-2011, 04:40 PM
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Rivet Master
1992 29' Excella
1987 32' Excella
Morrilton
, Arkansas
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 591
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Oh, us Americans just can never stick together. Gas prices are going up now based on futures trading - there's no shortage! If we all decided to be parked (not just RVers but everyone) a day or so a week, we could glut them with their oil and force the prices down.
But, well....we don't get together much unless someone else attacks us.
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2004 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins HD 1987 Excella 32'
"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around." Reba McEntire
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02-27-2011, 06:19 PM
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Commercial Member
2016 27' International
Currently Looking...
Wilton
, California
Join Date: Aug 2008
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My daughter and I were just talking about this very topic. She is 17 now and has been driving for about 3 months. She used to think money grows on tree's or maybe she could just hit up "Bank of Dad". Thats all changed for her now.
We still plan on taking our family vacations and I bet she doesnt drive up on her own like previously planned lol.
Yup.. wont be changing any plans at $5.00 dollars. $7.00 or $8.00 maybe...
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02-27-2011, 07:32 PM
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1968 17' Caravel
Battle Ground
, Washington
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Lets not let this get too political, folks. The question is 'how will it effect you?' NOT 'whose fault is it'.
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02-27-2011, 08:44 PM
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Rivet Master
2005 22' Safari
Gresham
, Oregon
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 621
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stefrobrts
Lets not let this get too political, folks. The question is 'how will it effect you?' NOT 'whose fault is it'.
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Quite right, and what can we really do to change anything?????
We will make adjustments as we go to make sure that we will continue to take trips and see what wonderful places there are in the USA.
Will have a bigger garden this year, to try to offset the sure to be greater grocery costs. And back to paying much closer attention to what is on sale, combined with coupons.
I look at it this way, when we first go married 37 years ago, we had NO money and we made it then, so we will make it now.
Happy Camping to all.
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02-27-2011, 11:10 PM
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Hephzibah
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im not sure what i will do. i've already been shorted on my raise at work and now gas is digging even deeper into my bank account.
as of my last fill up at $3.19, im not even hanging up the nozzle anymore. im too disgusted to hang it back up.
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02-28-2011, 12:31 AM
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1978 31' Excella 500
Genoa
, Nevada
Join Date: Jul 2007
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I've noticed these things go up... and they come down. (It's what happens in the world between that's always a little interesting.)
It's not a good thing to use food (corn) to make fuel. There's lots of other organic waste- corn stalks, weeds, special grasses, hurricane debris, unwanted algae blooms to ferment into fuel. Meanwhile lots of poor people can't afford to eat with artificially high priced corn (even though I'm a recovering farmer).
Diesel .. usually seems to stay close to 10% more than gasoline since they started to promote diesel cars and recreational diesel trucks. A brief fling for propane trucks in the early 80's died out. It was funny, when I started in the oil patch in the late 70's diesel was in a shortage in the Rockies, there wasn't oil to drill for oil. Rig hands always filled their trucks from the rig tanks.
Shale oil is expensive to extract from the shale, needs lots of energy and water in the process. The frozen oil sands of Canada take quite a bit of heat to extract the oil too.
The price will probably come down before the country comes to an end, but there'll be lots of us that can't afford fuel to get to work, the family car will be carrying a lot more work tools and equipment.
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02-28-2011, 06:50 AM
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Rivet Master
2023 16' Basecamp
Currently Looking...
Chgo. N.W. Burb's
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sempi2, your post brings back memories of waking up with $50 (Combined) the day we got married 38 years ago. We have done OK and will save in other ways, but we will Travel. I work part time retail and my wife plans on retiring next year. ( $5.50 gal then.)
But our "Big Trip" plan goes on.
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02-28-2011, 06:59 AM
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4 Rivet Member
1972 21' Globetrotter
nc
, North Carolina
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i don't think you will see any gas lines at the pump, if you got the $$, you can buy all you want.
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02-28-2011, 07:22 AM
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Rivet Master
Airstream - Other
2016 Interstate Grand Tour Ext
Bosque Farms
, New Mexico
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I agree with rock60: There is no shortage to speak of. The root cause lies elsewhere.
On the broader view, though, there is some hope, seen in news reports like the one linked below:
Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2 - Yahoo! News
Lynn
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02-28-2011, 07:41 AM
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1 Rivet Member
Portland
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Well, if it does get to $5 it will make it easier for me to raise funding for my tt electric assist wheel motor I've had in development! I'm sure the pencils will get sharper in Detroit figuring out ways of making that $5 get us a bit farther down the road! My travel plans won't change but I'm going to buy a new tow vehicle in the next 30 days, a diesel.
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Originally Posted by Caryl
If gas hits $5 per gallon by Memorial Day, how will you handle your travel? Of course, things could change, but have you thought about the "what if?" Creative thoughts welcome.
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02-28-2011, 09:26 AM
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Rivet Master
2005 30' Classic
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The cost of fuel will affect my travel. I will stay closer to home, take fewer trips, and stay longer. Not that I get out that often anyway… I fully expect to pace myself and put myself in a position to successfully weather the inflation we are about to experience.
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02-28-2011, 11:25 AM
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Rivet Master
1964 17' Bambi II
1961 24' Tradewind
Strasburg
, Pennsylvania
Join Date: Mar 2010
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It is not out of the realm of possibility for gas to hit $5 by Memorial Day Weekend. We will keep our current travel plans which include a family jaunt to upstate NJ in late May, a trip to the Adirondack region of NY in early June, and a few trips to the NJ shore later in the Summer. All of these trips will be from SE Pennsylvania.
At the cost of gas, not to mention of campground sites, I will probably spend more time at home this summer working on getting the AS roadworthy than traveling with our Scotty.
The bigger question is whom do we write to, as common citizen folk, to question the decisions being made that are driving up the fuel costs so high? It is no fun being an American anymore...but maybe that is the point of all of this?
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02-28-2011, 11:25 AM
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4 Rivet Member
1956 16' Bubble
Dallas
, Oregon
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 364
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I think food prices are worse
gas prices are not really what nails my budget--it's FOOD PRICES. I'm amazed at what it costs to feed a family with 3 kids. At the moment I spend more on food than my mortgage. Then there's medical. Gas is pretty far down on my lists of budget breakers. If i could feed my family with the same amount of dollars i feed my vehicles i'd be dancing. Even when/if it hits 5 bucks--it still will be way less than i pay for food. I'm sure i could feed the kids mac and cheese and all of the great value processed crud from walmart everyday but then they'd be overweight and unhealthy for sure. I still don't like rising gas prices--don't get me wrong. I still ride a vespa all summer when I can (that covers the insurance and upkeep for owning one but it will take a few years to get the money back from the puchase price as well).
ps: by buying a 16 foot bubble I don't have to buy and fuel a honking tow vehicle too so that helps
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02-28-2011, 01:43 PM
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#60
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Rivet Master
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1984 31' Airstream310
Ajo
, Arizona
Join Date: Mar 2007
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We'll fuel this week when going into Phoenix at Loves' who is usually the lowest along with Flying J. Since we take 60 gallons and I've not fueled since we came down, it should be interesting, to say the least. Fuel is about what it was in March of 2008, according to my fuel/mileage logs.
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