They don’t need to justify it. If they can pay the price for the fuel they can do what they want with it.
Let the market do its thing.
I can remember when this used to be a free country.
I’m just waiting for the enviro extremists to start demonizing people who drive RVs. Among other things, they will point to low gas mileage and the sewage clean outs and say that these vehicles are too polluting. Not saying I agree with that, but that could happen. Yep, gotta be “green” at all costs to the extremists in the environmental movement.
There is something quintessentially American about packing up and hitting the high road, and I applaud those who understand and enliven the spirit of American freedom in this way.
I’ve often wished I had the time and money to take a year and travel across the country in an RV. The idea of moving from place to place on my schedule and whims is very appealing. More power to them.
I like these RV owners attitude. So what of the gas price has gone up, keep RV’ing. Why did you work for anyway, to enjoy times like this. Go RV’ing!
As if anyone need justify how they spend their money....
..especially considering most, if not all of these folks worked hard, saved, paid their taxes and now enjoy a bit of retirement...
A lot of these comments look like plain ole class envy.
Also...a different perspective...My uncle & wife worked hard, saved, paid their taxes...
..retired, bought an rv, and spent the next 10 years traveling from place to place with a ministry that repairs orphanages, churches, church camps, etc.
They painted, cooked, did electrical work, etc.
So, even though it's none of anyone's business WHAT they did with their RV, criticism is misplaced in any case.
DH is on the road today to go up to the Apostle Islands for some camping and sailing w/some buddies. He called to say he is not seeing as much traffic as usual and he only saw one RV, which is also unusual.
He opted to take the Focus and tent camp, instead of the van, in which he could also sleep, so they are all chipping in on a charter, which is cheaper than hauling sailboats 600 miles round trip.
I am spending my gas money to heat the pool and decided it was a good trade off, since the last fill cost me $2.30/gallon and the winter cap is $2.54.
We Americans are resourceful, we can do the math and we are not going to sit around with our thumbs up because Congress is full of evil idiots.
Most of those comments are incredible. Envy, hate, disrespect for people who’ve actually sacrificed and worked their butts off.
Why did I do it? Because I got a great deal on it and I've always wanted an SUV. Yes, my BB (beautiful beast) likes to eat gas much more than my Sentra, but I don't care.
I don't have a lot of splurges in life and my SUV was one I wanted for a long time.
I LOVE my beast and couldn't be happier!!!!
Got my "Rush Babe On Board" and wear it proudly!!!
We have a pop up. We’ve rented RVs before and they are really nice in a lot of ways but we don’t need the TV and air conditioning (although it’s nice for older people who do) and so I’m happy with my own bed and a bath room at hand. I don’t cook much either way. We get about 25 miles/gal when we pull with our Honda Odyssey. We hope to do more following of our son to blue grass festivals. We’re going to Rocky Grass this month. Any other freepers out there going?
I just bought a used Class A... Got a great deal on it. I’m thinking of converting it to burn coal or wood chips.
If only there was a way to make miniature nuclear-powered engines, for RVs, boats, tactor-trailers, trucks, busses, and limos. Cars and light trucks could still use gasoline. The price of gas would easily be cut in half.
Uh huh...That's why a good friend of mine that owns a rather large RV rental yard is down about 30 percent this year from last.
In a free country, that means it's nobody else's business!
We were going to drive out west this fall (RT would have been about 5600 miles) but instead we decided to stay on the east coast and hop around to some state parks in the Blue Ridge Mtns. ($20 a night), then down to the Smokies ($24 a night with full hookups and cable TV) for three weeks total trip time.
We'll do about 1400 miles RT on this trip. We prepare almost all our own meals so don't count that any extra cost than we would have at home. Even with the cost of gas, we're ahead of the game. It works out to about $55/day for our vacation for the both of us for gas and lodging. The only way you could do the same trip for cheaper is if you drove an economical car and tent camped along the way.
With our rig, we have most of the conveniences of home including internet access because we have a Verizon Aircard with an antenna booster for the more remote areas. And you don't have to live out of a suitcase or set up camp. You just pull in and plug in your power cord and hook up your water line. Then dump your tanks when you leave. If you had a satellite TV set up, which we don't at this point, you'd really have it all.
It really is the way to travel, but for the time being, we'll stick close to home to save money on gas.
Lest you think we're gas hogs, both of us work at home and we put only about 15,000 total miles on both our cars combined per year. People who commute can put more mileage than that on one car alone.
Most figure $10/gal gas will clean these riff-raff off the roads, drive them off the landscape into Soviet-style bloc housing and mass transit in the cities, and leave most of the country empty so they can "manage" it according to their green fancies.
Oh, and another benefit is they will have quieter views from their own 5,000 sq/ft energy-efficient log homes on top of a mountain where they can sip their chardonney and contemplate the future of Gaia.
A couple years ago we bought an RV that had been sitting at the dealers for a year, and hadn't sold.
They lowered the price... hugely!
We feared it might have problems while sitting in the elements for a year, but it hasn't.
We make short trips to local campgrounds with our granddaughter/daughter/son in law and have a blast.
It has paid for itself....
It's lovely having one's own bed, fresh sheets, clean towels and bathroom.
The more stories I hear about careless maids using or reusing towels to clean the dishes AND the toilet...
..the recurrence of bedbugs...lice...etc.
..the more cost efficient this has become.
Our longest trip (so far) has been to Texas at Christmas with the five of us...
..and our Class C did just fine.
I highly recommend RVing.
I drove 500 miles this weekend and only saw a handful of RV’s on the road. Overall, traffic was lighter than a typical 4th of July weekend.