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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
The gas prices here in Colorado Springs are 10 cents/gal higher than diesel.
gas $3.79
diesel $3.69
And considering the lower 85 octane rating, regular here is even higher, more like 3.90
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cekkk
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05/19/13 06:39pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
The new gasoline price is now $3.95 ... In my opinion these price increases are partly due to the FED continuing to print money since the prices are in U.S. dollars.
But $3.12 in Tucson?? Let's face it, we are getting ripped at every level.
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cekkk
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05/15/13 08:01am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Words That Melt My Brain
I never noticed that "twice" isn't being used. But I do often request a "couple" widgets, and often as not, the clerk will ask how many that is. I once responded something to the effect, same as a married couple. Got a quizzical look. Figuring her teachers had had more time with her than I could spare, I just said "two." Come to think of it, would any of her teachers have known...No, better not go there.
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cekkk
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05/14/13 10:01am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Words That Melt My Brain
Some of those were common, i believe, to folks of a couple generations back and have passed from everyday usage. "Fetch" was used daily by all of my grandparents, but it's seldom heard today.
I'm hopeful that the same fate will befall today's sorry terms - slippery slope - at this particular point in time (now), et cetera.
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cekkk
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05/13/13 03:23pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Nearly all the ethanol blended into gasoline is imported from south America. You think an oil spill is bad wait until you have a tanker full of ethanol have an accident.
Interesting. Where does the corn come from?
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cekkk
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05/13/13 12:03pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Words That Melt My Brain
I've always used the term 'stubbed my toe.'
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cekkk
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05/13/13 11:53am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Let's not forget the impact governments, plural, have on the price of gas/diesel. It's substantial. This blend here, that blend there. Ain't no free lunch. Not to mention how they screw with the refineries themselves. Oil is a third cheaper than a few years ago. But the retail prices are roughly the same as back then. And now EPA wants 15% ethanol, to heck with what it does to the engines and the starving children around the world for whom the price of grain rises even more. Government, the fed one, is just swell.
Diesel here now $3.569, less than regular! Yippee Yippee ....!
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cekkk
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05/10/13 06:45pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
I've been told that higher octanes can make startup in cold weather more difficult. Wonder if that's true.
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cekkk
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05/08/13 10:20pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
I'm wondering what the tax is on both gas and diesel there down under.
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cekkk
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05/08/13 02:42pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Cummins 300 Engine Code 2388
First, replace your technician. $4k on nothing more than a code? Tell me there's more to it than that.
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cekkk
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05/06/13 02:51pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Yesterday I filled up the 7.3 at $3.599, the lowest price I've paid since I can remember. And I was happy. Isn't that just sick!?! :o
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cekkk
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05/05/13 11:32am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Fifth wheel investment
Would the OP, Milo, please clarify whether the question was addressing the financial definition of "investment" or simply asking as a matter of construction quality? I cannot believe he wouldn't know these things lose value from the get-go.
I've been hammered on the forum because I refer to a RV as an investment. What I didn't do was to specify that I was talking about construction quality.WoodGlue
Just as I thought. Don't feel bad, I thought it was pretty clear. Only a moron would have thought it might be a good way to increase one's monetary assets. But I wasn't surprised that so many took you literally.
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cekkk
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05/04/13 12:15pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
You're right, Tomman. But congress has been shoving unwanted weapons, bases, etc., down DoD's throat since the beginning of the Republic. God forbid some congressman's district should lose a defense dollar.
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cekkk
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05/04/13 12:11pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Fifth wheel investment
Would the OP, Milo, please clarify whether the question was addressing the financial definition of "investment" or simply asking as a matter of construction quality? I cannot believe he wouldn't know these things lose value from the get-go.
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cekkk
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05/04/13 09:59am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Fifth wheel investment
I'm going to assume you are referring to its reliability. I have no personal experience with Dutchmen products, but a friend who did was down on them. That was quite a few years ago, so if the product is like most things these days, they are probably worse.
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cekkk
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05/03/13 08:56am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Went into town yesterday and diesel can be had at $3.619 in Woodland Park. May be in the 3.50s in Colo. Spgs.
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cekkk
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04/30/13 10:58am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Class A or Class C
Ivylog's experiences must be different from mine, and he may do a lot more research before a purchase. Over the years what suits me best is to buy a first-time item having in mind I will want something quite different after gaining actual experience. So I go for something basic with a high probability of getting out of it with little financial loss. It's worked, for me anyway, with our first boat, trailer and, way back in the 60s, first house and motorcycle.
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cekkk
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04/29/13 10:24am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Central Planning works out well in Cuba, but folks can not afford to buy fuel for their 56 Chevy's.
Still, it's a wonderful system, second only to Hugo's. Just ask Hollywood.
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cekkk
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04/29/13 10:13am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Does that 85 octane have ethanol in it? When we were last out West it was frequently the same price (85 and 87). Don't know if the EPA ruling covers 85 octane, but suspect it does. Not sure where the new 15% EPA ethanol standard is, but I know there are lawsuits on it.
Oh yes, you bet it does. Mileage sucks. Nothing like pouring sugar into your gas tank, is there? Thanks, Congress/EPA!
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cekkk
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04/23/13 08:59am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!
Arrived back home a week ago. Colorado Springs and vicinity has regular running about $3.40. Of course, often forgotten is that the octane rating is only 85, which means we're getting an additional reaming of about 12 cents/gallon.
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cekkk
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04/23/13 08:30am |
General RVing Issues
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