Reply #6: Historically, the product isn't foolish [View All]

At one time, the RV was a great way to avoid high plane and hotel prices. When gas was cheap, it was not too expensive to take the kids in the RV and head to the beach or mountains. It was a nice way to have the family together and get to some places that you normally wouldn't get to otherwise.

Today, the prospect of filling up a 40 to 60 gallon tank is daunting. Loaded up, the RV may get 8 to 12 miles per gallon so a long vacation will eat up the budget.

Not to mention the clear and undisputed (except by the Bush administration) problem with global warming. Any environmentally conscious person has a difficult time justifying the use of such a pollutant. So, even if you have gobs of cash to be used for the gas, the environmental problems are still there.

So, the RV manufacturers will either need to develop an RV that uses hydrogen or biodiesal, or slowly go the way of the dodo.