1fastdad
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Keith M wrote:Well there is one pretty easy way to knock down the fuel cost and that is to put the RV into storage. I saw one place out in the desert that was only $30 per month. A MH user could put his rig into storage for eight months for $240 and drive a 32mpg toad down for Washington, Oregon, or BC in as little as two days for maybe $250 including lodging each way. If you are counting the cost is $740 total back and forth and storage. By the way quite a few snowbirds already do this so its really nothing new. What would you use for your summer trip. If you stayed home all summer you might be better of renting in the winter or buying a park model.
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HappyTrailsRVing
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We are getting a one gallon gas can, every week we will put in one gallon while we are parked over winter and at home over summer, that way the first fill up going to RGV and home will not be such a shock. LOL
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PRT
Liverpool, NY/Ruskin, FL
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After doing this for nine years, there is no way on God's green earth you could keep us home. We bought a park model last year (it's really a trailer with a Florida room,) and sold our rig last summer.
We loved RVing, and are still in a cg/RV resort, but it was a good time to switch.
We'll come down in October, stay until close to Thanksgiving and go home until just after New Year's. We'll head back down 1/2/09 and stay through April.
We had basically stopped summer camping, so it worked for us.
Many of our neighbors here drove rigs down and have park models, or some have seasonal lots and live in the RV. Two of the latter left/are leaving the rig right where it sits and paying the seasonal rate. Cheaper than gas to get home. Storage here is $40 a month - another route to follow.
Gas prices are insane.
Pat
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Anyoltime
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Interesting news report today by the Imperial Bank of Canada(CIBC).Oil per barrel in 4 years is slated to be $225.00 a barrel.Also pump prices will be over $ 2.50 a liter.That means when I fill up my 25 gallon tank with gas it will cost me about $250.00.My friends motor home will cost over $1000.00 per fill,according to him.He full times and tells me if that is true he will spend over $ 6000.00 for his southern return winter trip.Oh well hope the lettuce in Yuma is under $5.00 a head.
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nelson
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Being a snowbird is the easy part, You are making a trip that is three to four months long. Most stay in one place for a month or longer so the cost of getting there is spread out. But the cost of going places once you are there is the hard part. I put almost 5000 miles on my toad this year when in FL for 3.5 month that will have to come down and spend less on everything else while we are there.
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whistlebritches
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To me the cost of heating your home will be a bigger issue than fuel costs. Our propane prices jumped from $.49/gal. just a few years ago to as high as $2.50/gal. last winter. Fortunately for us, we have two fireplaces, and we cut our own wood and burned the heck of it last winter (polluting of course)!
We managed to get by with one tank of propane until February, then bought 200 gals., but we'll have to get more by June or July (we use it for one hot water tank and a small heater int he bathroom. I am seriously considering switching to electric heat since we get our electricity from a nuclear power plant 90 miles away, so it makes our kwh a little cheaper. I don't know why they don't build more nuclear plants. Well, yes I do, the nutcases won't let them because they're afraid of them. As long as they have good security and good safety procedures, they're a great alternative source of power.
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traindriver
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We are saving the money for a gas fund seperate from our other expenses. So when time to go it will not be such a big issue. Actually, I am more concerned with inflation causing everything else to go up. The time has come to re-regulate the trading of the commodities markets.
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BruceStarkey
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Nuclear energy is no panacea, putting spent fuel rods into old mine shafts just doesn't cut it. We still have domestic fossil fuel capabilities well into the future but it's being saved until the mid east stuff is all used up then we can act like Arabs and sell fuel to them at exorbitant prices to enable them to drive their Rolls's in the deserts. Haaaar! A little tongue in cheek there!
I will continue to RV until health changes for myself or spouse so as to prohibit it.
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ryoung
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When I came home from Florida this past March, diesel was hitting $4.00 per gallon. If it's 5.00 a gallon when I head back south this fall, I'll just pay another $100.00 to get down there.
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chuckster11
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I like the idea of storing the motorhome down south and traveling back and forth in the toad. That said, the one thing that may keep me at home is the prospect of spending another cold, windy, and wet winter in Arizona. This was our first experience snowbirding and I have to tell you it was disappointing! I spent far more in propane a month than I do heating my home with natural gas and I despised being cooped up in that small a space 24/7. I'll take a hard look at the forcasts for the areas we want to go before I commit to another winter away from home.
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