Rollincool
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That's tough. I'm sure this won't be the last post we all see like this.
Good luck.
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Bearnkat
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Sorry to hear you're selling your rig. That's too bad. Hopefully things will turn around soon.
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mikehart92
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spkncarl wrote:mikehart92 wrote:hemlox wrote:Why not just camp closer to home?
I have been using the tt to live in about 6months out of the year while out of town on jobs. Each job last 3weeks to 3months. Not worth the cost of pulling the thing half way across the country for three weeks. Cheaper to have a high mpg car and stay at hotels. It's a numbers things. Till now it was about a break even thing, now it's about going into the red.
Mike
well it sounds like it's used for work not enjoyment/vacations. That's too bad.
Actually, we use it for fun when I am home and make some of the jobs funner. The family get to stay at some nice campgrounds when they visit me in the summers. Guess I won't have them visit me from here on out because there is no fun to be had in a hotel room.
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BurbMan
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Can't you get a tax write off on the rig and expenses? If you are a salaried employee, see if the company will put you on a 1099 basis, form a corp, then write off the rig as a business expense. Or get the company to reimburse you.
Hotels are no bargain either, personally I would wait until next year. The market's flooded with guys like you bailing out and prices of TTs and diesel pickups are in the pooper.
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Ramblin_Mo
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mikehart92 wrote:Just can't justify the diesel truck with the prices any more.
Now I have to go through the sad process of taking all the personal stuff out, cleaning it up, and doing walk thru's with potential buyers. I just hope there are buyers out there right now. Just gonna try to get payoff so I hope that helps it sell.
Gotta clean up the truck and try to trade it off too. Right side up on it by far so shouldn't be that hard.
Hate the thoughts of going back to hotels.
I have to add that I do blame the oil enriched people in office for this loss.
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It is estimated that there are two trillion barrels of unexplored oil shale right here in the United States. That's trillion with a "t". One party continues to impede any attempts to use it.
The American Energy Protection Act of 2008 (Senate Bill 2958) would remove restrictions on oil exploration and drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). This would have opened access to about 24 billion barrels of oil, which is enough to keep America running for five years with no foreign imports, while other energy technologies are being developed.
Voted down in the Senate
From recent email
A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country
Well, there's a very simple answer.Nobody bothered to check the oil.
We just didn't know we were getting low.
The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located in
ALASKA
California
Coastal Florida
Coastal Louisiana
Kansas
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
And our DIPSTICKS are ALL located in Washington DC !!!
Any Questions???
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JIH
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Quote:It is estimated that there are two trillion barrels of unexplored oil shale right here in the United States. That's trillion with a "t". One party continues to impede any attempts to use it.
What they are impeding is the Government subsidy to extract shale oil as it cost more to extract it than it is worth. When the price of oil reaches the cost of extraction then oil companies will extract it without Government subsidies.
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Ramblin_Mo
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Cost of extraction is estimated to be in the $40-$50 a barrel range. They don't need a subsidy, they need a price floor to keep the foreign interests from tanking long term investments by ramping up oil production.
Why invest in any technology to extract it when lawyers are circling overhead just itching for a bite of any company that thinks about harvesting domestic oil or oil shale?
The US Senate just this week said no to domestic energy. Scoring political points are more important than your pocket book and pain at the pump.
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mtlogger
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I live out of my Airstream when I'm working the forest, which is what I'm doing right now. It's hardly a bother to move it, it just depends on what the job is paying. If it's worth it, then I do it. Last season I worked in Idaho & Colorado. Diesel then was $3.19/gal and now it's $4.49/gal. I chalk it up to the cost of doing business.
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KnLMurakami
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I dunno, we just got back from a 1500 mi round trip to N California Redwoods. We spent just about $722 on diesel and averaged 10 to 11 mi per gallon in our paid for 96 Ford. We did a lot of sight seeing. We paid not that much more than going gas prices and filled up a couple times in Oregon where it was cheaper. Spent about $100 on an RV site and saw tons of awesome sights. Had home cooked meals every day and showers in the privacy of a clean TT with no doubts as to who and what has been in there. I will take RVing to staying in a decent motel at over $100 a night on average and eating fast food any day.
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mtlogger
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Ramblin_Mo wrote:
It is estimated that there are two trillion barrels of unexplored oil shale right here in the United States. That's trillion with a "t". One party continues to impede any attempts to use it.
It is not un-explored. The oil companies know exactly where it is.
Quote:The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located in
ALASKA
California
Coastal Florida
Coastal Louisiana
Kansas
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
You forgot the sour crude (which also makes diesel and road asphalt)in Montana, Wyoming, Utah & New Mexico; sweet crude in Wyoming and North Dakota. If ANWR had been drilled, it would just now be coming on line and would replace Prudhoe Bay for about a year or two, that's why it wasn't drilled in the first place. Now if you want - there are two natural gas projects in the same region, which if connected together would allow us to be totally independent within 10 years. But no one wants to talk about it.
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