Would $7 per gal effect your RV lifestyle?

If I want to go I have to pay--and I want to go at about 9mpg diesel. Its $4.00 a gal right now here in central NC and gas was $3.15 yesterday. Its when I get away from here it goes up.

No change in my plans.

Won’t affect me. We stay close to home for the holiday weekends. And then 1 or 2 long trips a year. I’ll feel it, but still do it. I just hope they raise the cutoff to $200! Ide hate to restart the pump 3 or 4 times!

Our RV trips tend to be to relatively close destinations (less than 100 miles, one-way), and usually involve staying there for several days.

Fuel economy while towing our 17 footer is also pretty good (around 15 MPG).

So, the cost of the fuel burned to get there and back is a pretty small fraction of the total cost of the trip.

Even if the fuel cost doubled, it would still be just a small chunk of the trip budget - certainly not enough to alter our travel habits.

Would not change our plans.

For over a decade, I have made/improved a trip planner in Excel. I now have a little script in a box that pulls the trip mileage, and looks at $2.50 / 3.00 / 3.50 / up to 6.00 per gallon, in 0.50 cent increments.

Point is, you are right...even with our 7.0 mpg AVG class c rig, it's a few hundred, even up to $800 more than whatever baseline I put in.

Yes, we would still do our one big trip per year (2 to 3 weeks...we are not retired just yet) and a few weekend trips. But, we would budget for it and squeeze something else.

It's sad to me that with all the reserves/potential the USA has with oil, it's not utilized anymore.

I will also say this -- we don't use a dinghy/toad. Wife drives behind in her Subaru, which gets good mileage. We may get a dolly for my Camry, but have held off until we are retired (5 or 6 yrs from now). At one time we did tow a 20+ yr old Jeep behind us, but the Jeep sat most the year. Sold the Jeep/towbar/braking system in order to make sure we could pay for our kids college w/o loans. Point here is, just like you, I cut an expense in RV'ing for college, and if gas goes to the stratosphere, we'll cut a few things to even the load.

Let's hope things settle down...for EVERYONE's sake...and we get back to normal!

We also have our trips planned and campsites booked so we will travel. My truck towing the trailer gets 9 miles to the gallon, I look at it this way my wife and I worked hard for 45 years we are not going to sit at home, life is short.

I'm going to travel no matter what. In the grand scheme of things fuel cost is one of the smaller expenses in RV travel. I do ponder on the real reason. Is it supply chain issues, tensions with Russia and Ukraine, political, an eco-political push for EV's? All of the above? But the US is supposed to have some redundancy and stores in cases of oil shortages (whatever the cause). But just like anything, the wrong spin from any leader can put investors and suppliers in a panic and wreak havoc on the economy.

Won't affect me at all.

yes ,and its all a bunch bull.