Looking forward to the seminar Jon. I just paid PVML to replace an airspriing that I didn't have time or a place to run down..
Would rather understand it!
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Looking forward to the seminar Jon. I just paid PVML to replace an airspriing that I didn't have time or a place to run down..
Would rather understand it!
Boy if you want to suck all the air out of the room, lets talk about the price of fuel.
I hate the idea of paying $500.00 or more for a fill up, but I will cut back else where. Also, Shorter trips and fewer trips will help.
Actually as a guy that has supported an aviation habit for years, suffering with the pain of writing checks for fixed costs such as hangars and insurance and charts and databases anyone that owns a bus and is influenced by the price of fuel needs to readjust the thinking.
Consider the cost per mile of your bus bringing depreciation, lost earnings on invested capital (or interest), tires, batteries, insurance, licensing, etc. into the equation based on the average number of miles you drive. These are the costs you pay annually without ever rolling a wheel. Add to that cost the variables such as oil changes and repairs and you will see that the per mile cost will make you want to sell your bus.
But....instead of doing that take another look at what your cost per mile is if you double the mileage you drive, or triple the mileage you drive. Despite the high price of fuel you are now saving money. See how simple it is to ignore fuel costs????????
Jon,
It is still o.k. to bitch about the price of fuel!
Very few of us use our busses enough to really worry about that issue from owners point of view.
My complaint on 4 plus per dollar diesel is the impact at say the grocery store where those fresh avocado's from the left coast sell at twice the price on the opposite side of the country, when to compared to a year ago. Same holds true for almost anything that has to be shipped be it by truck, rail or air....they all use some form of much more expensive diesel and the consumer, you and I, are paying for it.
Without getting this into a political argument I suspect we are seeing high prices across the board due to the idiots we have placed in office.
First, our wizards have managed to cause the dollar to lose value so we may not actually be seeing $4.00 diesel, but $3.00 diesel if we had as much value in the dollar as we had 2 or three years ago. So part of the higher costs are due to the weaker dollar. Maybe they need to stop printing money and let the people that got in over their heads lose their houses.
Then to exacerbate the problem the tree hugging weenies have decided ethanol is the path to environmental purity. So we spend megabucks to create a gallon of fuel that costs as much as or more than petroleum fuel, and which requires abundant amounts of corn (for example) to produce. And that fuel has less energy content so more is required. So instead of planting other crops farmers plant corn, with less going to feed cattle driving up prices of produce across the board due to the ripple effect.
You can blame the fuel for higher prices, but the price of fuel is the symptom, not the disease.
Heading out to burn some of that in a little bit. Maybe there will be less traffic because the American public has said they cannot pay the cost of fuel. Yeah right....there will be as many on the road as before.
Right on Jon,
Careful of that Ethanol. I put some (accidently cause I didn't read the pump) of that crap in my Jeep Wrangler last year in Denver. Bucked and snorted followed by a nice case of vapor lock.....took an Oklahoma Credit Card to it and was not able to syphon all of it out...lighter than gasoline! Took about 4 tanks of fuel to complete the flushing cycle. Absolute junk, costs more to produce than gasoline, diverts corn from cows, lousy performance and lousy mileage....have a look at the E-85 EPA mileage charts to verify that one.
John
Pahrump Diesel Prices are a lot less than LV and about the same as Reno. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and will arrive at Siebt about 10 hours later. (Harry and Shirley were planning to leave Reno this morning). I was going to top off my fuel here at The Alamo Truck Stop but fueling in Pahrump is a better option since we will be traveling a little lighter.
Now, I just need to get my son out of bed to help me wash the Tamale Wagon, make some last minute MH adjustments, fix about 40 ft of fence that blew down in our last 85 mile per hour wind and we'll be ready for an early morning departure. Life is so easy!!:)
A little update: Harry just called and they are having a brake problem just outside of Reno. He said the ABS light went on and there was a lot of screeching. The preliminary guess by a mechanic, now there with them, is it may be a wheel bearing. They will probably be towed back to Reno and hopefully leave with us in the morning.
Mel Torme,
Cut the guy a break. He's from Pismo Beach; the summer home of Bugs Bunny.
Anyone steeped in the fine art of the siphon hose has some stories to tell.