Date:         Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:05:43 +0000
Reply-To:     J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Will be worth less or more?
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>

<As fuel prices
continue to increase having a smaller more fuel efficient vehicle -
particularly any kind of RV - is going to become more and more
important. I think those big rolling home behemoths on like the
dinosaurs - doomed to extinction>

I wouldn't be writing the eulogy for the large motor home just yet. Even though I keep hearing that $4.00/gallon gas is here to stay, I don't believe it. Why? Well, in the spring and summer of 2006 gas was around $3.50 a gallon. By fall it was back down to around $1.90. When I bought my first home in 1981 my mortgage was 16.5%. People were saying back then "We'll never see single digit interest rates again". Well, we did and still are. Personally, if I owned one of those monsters I'd hang on to it for now and just use it for shorter trips ( a buddy of mine just left for a month long trip from Virginia to Florida and back in his class c motor home, he told me figured his fuel costs were going to be around $800.00!). And poor GM, here they are ready to dump Hummer and switch to more fuel efficient cars. A year from now, if prices have come back down, they'll be right back to making the fuel hogs they make now, because for some reason, that's what most of us Americans seem to want.
    Jeff

BTW, I have noticed a lot of mid to late 90's motor homes on Craigslist lately for bargain prices, less than 10K and some even less than 5K.