RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

southwindsteve wrote:
Ok folks, here is what I'm seeing. Fuel prices have done nothing but get higher since I have been alive. Sure, they will inch up or down over the weeks, months, and years. But the main thing to keep in mind is that they have and will always continue to go UP. So the fact still remains that the only people that really and truly don't care about the fuel prices are the ones that have LOTS of income or money. They don't care if the price of gas is $10 a gallon. But the majority of the RV owners are probably not in that category. So we have the "oh look the price just fell 2 cents, I was worried that it was going to keep rising and I couldn't use my RV anymore". Well guess what....the price of fuel WILL keep rising as long as there is any left in the ground. The price keeps going up and down to keep people confused as to where it will be next week. So they hang on to the hope that it will finally come down and stay down so they can afford to fill up their gas guzzlers and keep on traveling in them without suffering. Guess what......the oil companies, traders, or whoever is doing the manipulating is laughing all the way to the bank......which they probably own also.

Try to take into account inflation over the years, wars, then of course greed. Gee how long did it take you to catch on?

RV when you can and often. When I hear of someone that is not going to be able to go on vacation because gas went up 20 cents I think maybe they need to think smaller, cheaper or tenting, but go. For the rest of us , grin and bear it. When I did my retirement budget in 2006, I allotted $5.50 for fuel (diesel) for a 10 year outlook and guess what I am not sure we will get there, hope not.