Just for fun - RV's in 30 years...
So, DW and I are about 25-30 years from buying our 'retirement rig.' Last night, that got me thinking. When I think of what our TT has that was not part of trailers 30 years ago (multiple televisi...
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Fuel at $10+ / gallon.
I personally don't see much RVing going on. If there is, it will be vastly different than what we have now or just a few elite doing it.
And before anybody jumps on the "trucks will get better mileage" yada, yada, yada bandwagon, I will say this:
1969 brand new Chevy truck and TT for our family. 350/400/373 12 bolt, life was good. Mileage? 10 MPG over thousands of miles over many years of vacations towing our TT.
Fast forward to 2013. What do the new gasoline trucks get towing? 8 to 10 MPG towing about the same size trailer. :E That is the same or worse we got 40 years ago!
Over 40 years and 0 gain in towing fuel economy does not bode well for RVing when the next fuel price jump comes.
JMHO
I personally don't see much RVing going on. If there is, it will be vastly different than what we have now or just a few elite doing it.
And before anybody jumps on the "trucks will get better mileage" yada, yada, yada bandwagon, I will say this:
1969 brand new Chevy truck and TT for our family. 350/400/373 12 bolt, life was good. Mileage? 10 MPG over thousands of miles over many years of vacations towing our TT.
Fast forward to 2013. What do the new gasoline trucks get towing? 8 to 10 MPG towing about the same size trailer. :E That is the same or worse we got 40 years ago!
Over 40 years and 0 gain in towing fuel economy does not bode well for RVing when the next fuel price jump comes.
JMHO
