Well, my motor home is small enough, so thast I can pull it, with six clydsdales, won't need the toad, have six good horses, to go shoping, walmart's going to need some hitcing posts.
I have installed a key cover, on the motor home and the toad, they want the gas, make noise, I will let the 30-30 round, chase them, maybe we should get out of opec, and nationalise the oil industry.
Being retired and having to pay for some fat cat, so he can drop several millions in vegas, it is not good. O well need to go look at a horses mouth.
The question shouldn't be will you pay $8 a gallon for gas it should be will you have the money to buy food. To get to $8 a gallon in the US it would take a barrel of crude to go to $300 a barrel. That would cause food prices in the US to go up about 3x what they are today. It would also cause the US economy to crash and I mean crash. That would cause the world economy to also crash. I believe that our government ( I know thats a stretch) to come to their senses and fix the issue with the trading of oil on Wall Street.
kaydeejay wrote: Am in the UK right now. Gas is $8.30/US gallon. Doesn't seem to have stopped people driving their Mercedes/BMW/Jaguar/Porsches. I've seen a lot of Range Rovers pulling travel trailers (caravans over here) and they don't get good mileage EMPTY!
I'm afraid we are going to have to get used to paying World prices sooner or later and that may be MORE than $8/gallon.
thing is their whole country isn't much bigger than michigan
dalmationlovers wrote: The question shouldn't be will you pay $8 a gallon for gas it should be will you have the money to buy food. To get to $8 a gallon in the US it would take a barrel of crude to go to $300 a barrel. That would cause food prices in the US to go up about 3x what they are today. It would also cause the US economy to crash and I mean crash. That would cause the world economy to also crash. I believe that our government ( I know thats a stretch) to come to their senses and fix the issue with the trading of oil on Wall Street.
JMHO
Arnold
X2 It's not just $8 gallon gas, it's what everything else will cost because of it.
Actually, it may hit $8 or even $10 briefly **this** year. There are way too many variables to predict with accuracy what it will be in 2020, though the person who said it will rise with inflation is, of course, correct.
When we bought the RV, we really didn't plan to take it to Alaska or the East Coast. Most of our trips are going to be relatively short - max about 200 miles one-way, to model airplane competitions, and the occasional weekend at a state park or in a friend's driveway. We may even take it on (reimbursable) business trips I have to make around the northwest. We just loathe looking at the Bedbug Registry before every trip and checking into and out of hotels. I have to do enough of that for long-distance business trips.
Next week we're taking a really short jaunt in the RV ... to the south side of the Seattle area to spend a night in the Renton Walmart parking lot, because I have to be down there at 7 a.m. for a hospital mass casualty exercise, and I'm really not that much of a morning person.
We are 69 and 70, respectively. Neither of us has retirement income beyond Social Security. We bought our first house five years ago and are still working to get it into the shape we would like - this year it's some new windows and landscaping our tiny front yard (it's not a tiny house but we're at the end of a cul-de-sac). We have a year-old puppy. My husband just started building a 6-foot-wingspan Osprey model that should take him two years (though he always finishes them in half the time it's supposed to take and then goes out and wins scale model contests with them). I just started a new career, the best and most fun yet, and am working on a master's degree.
It will be a long time yet before we stop buying green bananas and hole up in our house, cussing about the economy (though DH does cuss a lot now about politics). We plan to keep doing what we do, one way or another, until we physically can't. That will probably mean both of us continuing to work to some extent until we're ready to hang it up or have a major health failure. I've told my sisters, at that point, to expect to find the RV parked behind of one of their houses. (Fortunately they both have many animals and live in the country.)
kaydeejay wrote: Am in the UK right now. Gas is $8.30/US gallon. Doesn't seem to have stopped people driving their Mercedes/BMW/Jaguar/Porsches. I've seen a lot of Range Rovers pulling travel trailers (caravans over here) and they don't get good mileage EMPTY!
I'm afraid we are going to have to get used to paying World prices sooner or later and that may be MORE than $8/gallon.
Price makes a difference when in the U.K. the total land mass is 243,000 kms and the U.S. is 9,700,000 kms, Mexico 1,972,550 and Canada 9,984,000, a lot less territory to cover. I guess we need to scale back the distances we drive, smaller tow vehicles and smaller rvs.
An advantage is that when rving in the U.K. you can take the Chunnel to the European continent. Wish we had a connection from Panama to South America.
I'm hoping to be an 8 month resident of Sarasota county,FL within 3-5 years. 4 months in a seasonal CG here in Maine, or a small apartment at a son's home with 3-4 weeks in something like a KOA Kabin.
Eight dollars a gallon would severely limit our travels. I suspect that many are already thinking seasonal, and the numbers will only increase.
I've had the good fortune to be in every state but Hawaii, and the DW has missed only 4 states. We have a major x-country trip planned for this year, and it's likely that fuel costs will shorten it. Original plans were to venture as far west as coastal Oregon before heading back east. We have alternate plans for heading North in either Western
Oklahoma or Santa Fe, NM before returning east. We alotted 5k for fuel, so as we go we'll better know when to start heading home.
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