For Laurie Potter, the breaking point came last week when she drove into Napa and found diesel selling for $5.25 a gallon. Her commitment to the RV lifestyle crumbled.
Some people might be able to swallow paying $450 to fill a pickup, but she’s not one of them, said Potter, who had been riding in a Dodge Ram pulling a trailer
Some people might be able to swallow paying $450 to fill a pickup, but she’s not one of them, said Potter, who had been riding in a Dodge Ram pulling a trailer
Now she’s selling both. “There is a threshold for anything you do,” she said. “It’s not worth it to me anymore.” In the future, she and her husband will stay in motels when they travel.
Parked on her pad at the Napa Valley Exposition RV park was a new Nissan Versa, an economy car purchased the day before on Soscol Avenue.
Parked on her pad at the Napa Valley Exposition RV park was a new Nissan Versa, an economy car purchased the day before on Soscol Avenue.
Her Ram got 10 mpg pulling the trailer.
With the Versa “they said 38 on the highway,” she said.
Skyrocketing gas and diesel prices are hitting every motorist in the pocketbook, but none more so than RV owners. Some of the biggest homes on wheels burn a gallon every seven miles.With the Versa “they said 38 on the highway,” she said.
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