Fuel to high, green people won't let US drill for oil.W.Mart needs larger parking lots for RV. Credit to hard to get for some people, wife wants sport car instead. To many young people just want to four wheel, not RV. Not many old folks want to spend the price anymore.
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We are in an RV Park that is full, granted it seems that many of the units are from neighboring states. Maybe folks are not going as far, but it doesn't seem that they are abandoning their RV's.
I think it is a combination of things. I read an article the other day that said the young are not exploring the outdoors like previous generations did...if they don't explore the outdoors as much they probably don't camp out as much and if they don't campout much they won't evolve into RV'ers.
Lew
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Enjoying the Lagniappe wrote: The RV industry is Dying?
We are in an RV Park that is full, granted it seems that many of the units are from neighboring states. Maybe folks are not going as far, but it doesn't seem that they are abandoning their RV's.
Some dedicated RVers are still traveling to be sure, but I've read about several of the RV manufacturers that have closed, or are cutting back on production. My RV dealer went from over 15 sales people three years ago to TWO today! In any event, the answer in my opinion, and other RVers I've spoken with, is the price of gas, nothing more.
Like many things the Rv industry is dieing from lack of money. Even the high rollers get hit as time goes on.The little guys first then up the food chain.
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Supercharged wrote: Fuel to high, green people won't let US drill for oil.
Fuel being too high for me.
Nothing is stopping them from drilling in lots of proven areas that they still are not drilling. Let them use what is already open to them and again, IS ALL READY PROVEN OIL FIELDS.
What about the huge fields in the Dakotas that where discovered in the late 90's, that they JUST NOW FOUND?
In a lot of cases, fear of losing your job keeps people from taking long vacations. You go away for 2 weeks and they decide they can get along without you. Then they ship the work to China and fire all your co-workers too. Add fuel prices, food prices, etc.
Heck, my truck (used) cost three times as much as my dad's house (new). My family went on three week vacations. My dad worked for one company his entire life. I have never worked over 8 years for the same company. BTW I only got laid off once (job went to China, yeah I'm bitter about that).
To put travel in perspective, in 1861 it cost the equivilant in todays dollars $2660.00 to travel by noisy, dusty, dirty and dangerous stage coach from St. Joseph to Carson City, 3 or 4 days! Compare that to the cost of traveling with a rv. Do I think Americans will continue to campout in RV's...yeah...but then again I survived the gas shortages of 1973!
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