I was just by the chevron gas station down the street and the prices posted were 2.80, 2.90, and 3.00 per gallon of gas.
My new motorhome gets 7.5 Miles per gallon of fuel compared to the old on that got about 5. This motorhome weights 26,000 pounds and the old one weighed 12,000 pounds. We used to climb hills in low gears but now the Allison does all the shifting if any and we climb the hills at hiway speeds.
However we are not doing much motorhome traveling this year. We are mostly going to a local park that is 39 miles each way when we used to go to one that was 200 miles each way. I guess our fuel costs then are about the same for motorhome trips.
Think on this:
I became privvey to a 1905 Sears and Roebuck Catalog a few years back and I looked at the prices of everything even including a complete Kraft home either prefabbed or built on your lot.
I then talked to some really old dudes and found out what they were earning at that time.
Then I sit down with my calculator and this is what I discovered. It took the same amount of hours worked in the early days as it did recently to buy the same things. The only thing that changed was the value of the dollar also called inflation. You had to work the same amount of hours in those good old days to buy a car that you have to work in these good new days.
How about that?
Bebop
PS: I just went out to dinner with wife and passed two Chevron Stations and the Ethyl gas was 3.11 per gallon. How about that?

[This message has been edited by BEBOP (edited 03-31-2006).]