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If gas reaches $3.50 a gallon, will you stop RVing?
 
With  1368 responses thus far, here's how the voting is going:
 
No, I will travel the same.
20.18% (276)
No, but will cut back on the miles I drive.
53.87% (737)
No, but will travel infrequently only very close to home.
18.93% (259)
Yes. I'll be done with RVing at those prices.
5.26% (72)
(Other) Please explain below.
1.75% (24)
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We are fulltimers and will continue to live the life style. We may have to control our "itchy wheels" and stay in one spot a little longer to stretch our fuel $.
Posted:   10/14/2005  By: Anonymous  
As fulltimers, we will not stop traveling. We use the fuel posting websites to check prices and find the lowest price on our route to fill up. If we happen onto a station with lower prices, we will fill up there. We try to stay in an area for several weeks and take day trips in our MDT, see everything in an area before moving on. We will just stay longer if prices go over $3.50. As the saying goes "Pay it or Park It".
Posted:   10/4/2005  By: Millie P  
I will slow down and will keep her tuned up, tires, and whatever it takes.
Posted:   10/2/2005  By: Lee  
We will probably tour less and look for RV parks with many on-site activities for our wintering. The summer travels around the country may well be cut back.
Posted:   9/27/2005  By: Beth Taylor  
Hi, we are from Manitoba, Canada and we Pay $104.9 per litre, which comes out to $4.72 per Gallon, 4.5 Litres in Cdn. Gallon. We pull a heavy old 5th whl trailer and get 11 mpg towing with our 2003 Chev Crew cab 1500HD. We travelled to Mahnomen, Minn. as Katrina was wasting New Orleans, and we watched gas prices go up to $3.00 per Gal. before we came back to Canada, which also rose in price.
Posted:   9/26/2005  By: W. Kasper, Gilbert Plains, Mb.  
Our RV uses diesel, and when we travel, I find it strange that the price is lower in the east of our great country that it is in the West. Also the reasons for the disparity in prices is as varied as the Brands of fuel. Our home on wheels gets around 11.5 to 13 mpg depending on my speed or way worse if I go faster because someone is trying to push us off the road by exceeding the posted limits. We have been to Alaska and Tennessee this year from our home in Utah, so we have bought a lot of fuel so far this year and we are lucky enough to have a good enough retirement to continue to travel no matter the price! But if it gets too much above $4.50 a gallon we will slow down our long trips to one a year and stay closer to home. That would be to bad because we have not seen all of our great country yet.
Posted:   9/26/2005  By: richardnshirlene@yahoo.com  
I guess the next logical question is - Would you replace your current Rv should gas reach or exceed $3.50 a gallon or give up Rving When your current unit no longer fits your needs.
Posted:   9/25/2005  By: David, Portland Ore  
We mostly travel 200 miles each way San Jose to Pismo Beach. We have just decided to store the MH in Pismo and drive the 35 MPG toad back and forth. storage cost is half and gas is 12 gal instead of 60 gal.
Posted:   9/25/2005  By: Bill (bebop) Forrest  
In my case I recently started dating a man I,ve known 41 yrs . His wife , my girlfriend died months ago and so if we split the cost of gas ,it will be so much more affordable . If you can find a compatible partner ,,go for it .
Posted:   9/25/2005  By: Jean  
We have already paid close to that in some parts of California, but RVing is way to much fun to quit and Hotels are to expensive and not as comfortable as our home on wheels... Happy owner of a 5er with a super duty...
Posted:   9/25/2005  By: Joni and Gary Reid  
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