RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

[Dick_A]

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[Truckboy]

A day by day fuel prices are increasing, so these are really great tips and tricks everyone, really appreciable, looking for more such kind of posts

[RambleOnNW]

When we were over in Sweden a few years ago, gas at the time was the equivalent of around $6/gallon. On the road we saw only 1 full size pickup pulling a trailer, most of the trailer tow vehicles were either Audi wagons or Subaru wagons.

[LindsayRichards]

I agree wholeheartedly cekkk. You left out one huge things though, the millions of jobs that would be directly produced and indirectly produced by not having to give the OPEC jerks $700,000,000,000 a year of American money. The whole concept of borrowing so much from our kids for a product we have in huge supplies. It is all about global warming, control, and politics. I live in Florida with nearly 12% unemployment and we could surely used some of those high paying jobs here. Every time I see a politician say we have to wean ourselves off of foreign oil, I want to throw up. We have large untapped reserves and are not using them because of the politicians. Enough said.

[cekkk]

Dick A wrote:
I agree with the majority of Fezziwig's above comments. Additionally, If we do manage to achieve some fiscal responsibility and the government ends its quantitative easing easing policy we may see the dollar strengthen again.

The current shale drilling may also apply market price pressure in both oil and natural gas markets.

Apologize for this post, as I swore off further posts on this topic earlier on. Just couldn't resist commenting once more.

While the shale oil reserves are incredibly enormous, and we should pursue them with vigor, currently, oil from shale is a work in progress. Although Shell, today's big actor, sees it as doable at $30/barrel, it's not sure its in situ process is going to work and, even if it does, max production is decades away. We desperately need to get to the black stuff that can be extracted using proven technology. And the world economic impact of an energy self-sufficient America would be something to behold.

But we continue to prostrate ourselves at the feet of the OPEC countries, several of whom attack us politically and militarily using our own dollars to do so. Certainly, the value of the dollar has some impact on per barrel cost, but realize that its value today is almost identical to its value in January of 2009. Perhaps the Saudis cutting back production by over 25% last year had an impact. And perhaps the enormous Washington oil lobby is successfully preventing us from putting up any resistance to OPEC.

Energy Sec. Chu would like European $7 gasoline. Interior Sec. Salazar canceled dozens of oil and gas leases in Utah, and Congress and the EPA have seen to great increases in production of that ridiculously expensive ethanol through trade protections and mandates.

This is about more than the price at the pump. This is about what your kids' and grandkids' lives will be like.

In the meantime, we may have to do our RVing in the back yard.

[SRT]

Gasoline dropped from $3.15 to $3.13 a gallon up here.

[autojohn_2]

diesel is 325 in lake havsu city az

[LindsayRichards]

If you were a real good American, you would take mass transit or ride your bike. Now I am just being facetious. That is what the tree hungers want you to do. If I rode my bike to the store, the second half would be in an ambulance. In our county we have huge $380,000 buses running hourly routes all over the county giving rides for all day for $1 or 50 cents for senior. They hold nearly 40 people. I never see more than 2 or 3 on them and usually nobody. I asked my commissioner why we were wasting so much money on them and she said, it doesn't cost anything, it is a federal grant. DUH, I pay federal taxes too, idiot. I think it would be cheaper to buy every regular rider their own car or pay for a cab than use these buses. We are up now over $3.08/gallon now and our state is surrounded by oil, Now Russia, Venezuela, and Viet Nam are slant drilling off of Cuba and taking our oil.

[RRRranch]

I don't care what the cause of high fuel prices is but I've already had to quit my job because of it. It was costing me more to drive to work than I was making. Seriously. I sold all of the old gas guzzling antiques we had. Really nice cars too but who can afford 8 mpg any more?
I got a new tractor designed to run on B100. Then the idiot that owned the bio plant near us lost his mind and started charging 10 bucks a gallon for the stuff. I'm not kidding.
I'm taking matters into my own hands now. Trying to convince our representatives that this is killing us is a lost cause. I'm keeping my 94 F350 and maintaining it in perfect condition. I was a Ford diesel mechanic for a long time and that's easy. I've done everything I can to get better mileage from it. It's a powerstroke 7.3 with a 5 speed and 4 wheel drive and I'm now getting slightly over 20 mpg running empty. I'm putting on a gear vendors overdrive real soon to make it even better. I put one on my old corvette and got another 8-10 mpg out of it!!!
We've found a good supplier for Bio diesel out here finaly too. He's 15 cents under regular diesel prices and another 50 cents under that for proving we have a farm. It's not dyed either in Texas since there is no tax on B100.
Right now I'm mixing it at 20% levels while I repair all the leaks it is causing. It is really cleaning my truck out! But is is better for the injectors. ULSD has absolutely no lubricating properties in it any more and bio does.
This spring, we're planting something to press into oil. I am not sure what yet, probably soybeans. I'm gonna press it myself, turn it into fuel myself and burn it myself. Screw the government.

[SRT]

We went out yesterday to enjoy the 20°F air and the sunshine yesterday. Gas prices had jumped $.06 a gallon to $3.15. looks like we will have high prices this year. :E

[SRT]

Nation-wide average price of regular gas is $3.10. Diesel average is $3.41. Glad we stayed with our 10 year old no-slide gasser.

[Bumpyroad]

strange, I always felt that the oil companies wanted us to use foreign oil so they could keep theirs in the ground until the price got out of sight.
bumpy

[Dick_A]

I agree with the majority of Fezziwig's above comments. Additionally, If we do manage to achieve some fiscal responsibility and the government ends its quantitative easing easing policy we may see the dollar strengthen again.

The current shale drilling may also apply market price pressure in both oil and natural gas markets.

[Gale_Hawkins]

I agree it was very wise to use their $2 a barrel oil rather than ours.

$100 oil hurts the pocket but makes hard to produce reserves cost effective.

[Fezziwig]

It's true that we mere citizens have little control over gas prices and even less visibility into price trends, but the good news is that gas prices have been very flat for 50 years when adjusted for inflation. We are the beneficiaries of smart US government oil policies set in place 60 years ago that tended to stabilize oil prices by making oil fungible and by using other-peoples-oil at low prices while preserving our own oil resources. Thus we were largely spared being heldup by international monopolies (we successfully backed down OPEC in 1973 so successfully that they haven't tried it since) while we were able to dominate oil markets by being the largest buyer.

Things are changing, now, since we are quickly becoming a smaller part of the market (about 25% today and heading down to 20% soon)so the bad news is that we will lose some market power but the good news is that new market leaders like China will probably tend to drive prices down because they are so poor (even though they will increase demand pressure). More good news is that the domestic oil we banked by using OPO will increase in value, counteracting the effect of increased dependence on foreign oil. At the same time it's wise for us to develop alternate energy sources for surface vehicles so as to preserve vital oil for aircraft and military while applying competitive pressure to oil suppliers. We'll have to supply government capital to do that since existing energy companies will be reluctant to invest in new energy since they get a better ROI from bribing government politicians to support their monopoly against new energy, especially given the SCOTUS approval of open bribery masquerading as campaign contributions.

[ironman2]

Sure takes the fun out of travelling. I guess the environment will improve as we sit at home twiddling thumbs