winkyb
Florida
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Just got back from one of the nicest State Parks in Florida.Silver River. But it was only about half full.The weekends are mostly full but local people like us about a 85 mile drive.I noticed Sunday not many RV`s on the road and unusual for the road and time we were there.I fulled up Sunday at 389.9 same station yesterday 395.9 but one up the road went from 395.9 down to 389.9.Over here close to home 85 miles around 404.9 to 409.9.Some as high as 424.9 next to
I-95.As for us we are retired and not getting any younger so will go as long as we can.Not as far as we would like.More or less any trip around 300 miles we will stay a week and over that at least two weeks.I don`t see us going much over 600 miles at the rate things are going.We were thinking about a all most 7000 mile round trip but put it on hold.And took one that in all was about 1600 miles.We are still having fun but just not putting on near as many miles as we were going to.
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Dick A
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We have been on the road for the past three weeks traveling from Spokane to Elkhart. We have yet to observe a full campground and most were only maybe twenty-percent full.
This oil price thing is going to have some dire effects on our economy in coming months. The housing, RV, and auto industries are in the dumpster along with others in some state of trouble.
I have noticed hundreds of thousands of acres of crop land under water and crops are either flooded or not yet planted. This will further raise already high food prices soon and hurt many farmers.
The stock market is just standing still, most folks are not making large purchases, and most investments are looking somewhat risky.
I think $4.00 fuel is about the highest price consumers will tolerate. I somewhat wonder if that Texas fire was not a message to government and a sign of things to come.
All across the country I have visited with other middle class RV'ers and most are fed-up and angry with the status quo.
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slowlane
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Well, today the gasbags on Capitol Hill are considering a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, another circus stunt for the benefit of fools that can accomplish absolutely nothing except drive prices still higher, increase our dependence on foreign oil, and, oh yes, give the politicians more cash to waste on boondoggles.
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Perpetual Vacationer
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Here's what's really ticked me off... Diesel is now $5.199 four miles away in Oakdale, CA. The same quality diesel is $2.32 across the border in Los Algodones, Mexico across from Yuma. Huh? Why are we getting "ye olde shafte"?
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ML
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Self-Taught Mechanic Uses Off-the-Shelf Technology; Automakers Pay Attention
"It isn't cheap. A typical conversion costs about $35,000, allowing automakers to dismiss Goodwin as an experimenter who is only serving a narrow segment of wealthy car enthusiasts. In response, he offers a couple of lower-cost options, including a fuel vaporizer for $1,000 that he says boosts fuel economy by 30 percent, and a $500 software download that reprograms diesel engines to get up to an additional seven miles per gallon. His work has many wondering why the big automakers can't simply reconfigure their assembly lines to make their own cars run as efficiently as Goodwin does".
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ORbiker
Springfield, Oregon
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I hate paying their price.
I feel like "they" are stealing from me.
Prices are going up, but wages are not going up. Everything is going to be affected. In the long run; there will be less taxes paid by businesses because fuel is a "cost" to do the work. Less taxes paid equals less money for the government idiots to spend.
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eltejano1
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Biker wrote:I hate paying their price.
I feel like "they" are stealing from me.
Wow! You just hit the nail on the head! With a few words you just said what I have been trying to say with long paragraphs of needless verbiage.
That's my problem too and my wife can't understand it - she's like so many here on the forum. Her philosophy is: "As long as I have the money I'm gonna keep on truckin'"
For me, being ripped-off like that takes all the fun out of the trip. When I fuel-up and fork-over 150 bucks for 30 gal of $%#@ diesel oil, I feel like a damned fool - bending over and taking "their" screwing like a cowardly wimp!
Well said, Biker.
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eltejano1
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Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
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crudeman
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eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
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Camping Hoosiers
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crudeman wrote:eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
Don't bet on it! Anyone running trucks right now is having a hard time adjusting price and fuel surcharge enough to stay in business. I am shelling out half a million per week for fuel and it hurts!
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