I read it this morning also, the Times in my my daily list. As usual they didn't get the demographic part correct; we don't all manage our portfolio before we jog on the beach. It does, however present an attractive view.
I believe that there needs to be some "green" comparisons done; hard scientific evidence that would serve as an industry reply. We might get only 8 mpg, but I know that we use less water and electricity now than when we were in the stick house. I am reasonably certain our "carbon footprint" is smaller than it was pre-fulltime.
Mike
Speedhitch said
05:33 PM Dec 3, 2007
Oh good gosh...people that buy those rigs DO NOT worry about the price of fuel and could care less about the enviroment. We full timers do more to preserve the enviroment than all the green peace folks out there....to inclue Mr Gore!
Go RV Dreams!
Joe and Sherri
-- Edited by Speedhitch at 17:34, 2007-12-03
Roz said
06:45 PM Dec 3, 2007
Without sounding like a broken record, what we read and view from the news media is far too often poorly researched or written to only reflect either the viewpoint of the writer, the assingment editor or a lobby group.
We each should send an e-mail to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) www.rvia.org, the association of RV virtually all manufacturers, and to the Family Motor Coach Association )FMCA www.fmca.com urging them to set the record straight. Both have a dog in this fight, as do we.
Granted the FMCA membership is for "powered RVs" only, but the article was about all of us. We need not identify whether we drive or tow our RVs. The article is painting a perception to legislators who can regulate all of us in the future.
I, for one, shall send an e-mail asking these two organizations to retort the article. How often do our RVs remain unmoved for weeks, if not months, at a time consuming not a single drop of fossil fuels? We simply do not drive everyday.
Those who do not express the real picture, cannot change the perception presented by errant and irresponsible editorial news writers.
Charles (now stepping off the soapbox)
Speedhitch said
11:51 AM Dec 4, 2007
Count me in this fight. I will send as many emails as needed to draw attention to the truth! You are right on about the regulation Roz. If we don't fight this kind of thinking now we will have to later. Thanks for the heads up....Hope everyone joins in here.
Joe and Sherri
bago40 said
07:48 PM Dec 4, 2007
mikeway wrote:
I read it this morning also, the Times in my my daily list. As usual they didn't get the demographic part correct; we don't all manage our portfolio before we jog on the beach. It does, however present an attractive view.
I believe that there needs to be some "green" comparisons done; hard scientific evidence that would serve as an industry reply. We might get only 8 mpg, but I know that we use less water and electricity now than when we were in the stick house. I am reasonably certain our "carbon footprint" is smaller than it was pre-fulltime.
Mike
Here Here! I like your thinking. Politicians can be very temperamental though not to mention their lobbyist groups. I don't think they like our freedom to roam too much nor the idea that we live more inexpensively either. To get the word out that we are "greener" (than Al Gore) and we don't travel thousands of miles a month would certainly help. . Due to the humidity this past summer here in St. Pete I left the air on all the time because I didn't want the fabrics in my MH to get damp and mold. My electric bill was still less than half of the stick house owners I've been acquainted with down here. Yes, we are more green!!!!, and a great group of folk too!!
RVDude said
05:39 PM Dec 5, 2007
One of my favorite "arguments" in how green FT RVers are goes like this. We heat/cool a few hundred square feet versus a stick/brick few thousand, We don't buy hundreds of pounds of fertilizers for our lawns/gardens, Many of us simply drive far fewer miles per year as well, and the biggest of them all, We simply do not buy anywhere near the amount of stuff you do when you have an entire house to fill with stuff. Stuff makes pollution and we simply don't buy that much stuff!
RVDude said
06:57 PM Dec 9, 2007
It looks like another mega dollar RV show is coming up...
Travel Channel, a program called "Luxe Life" is scheduled to highlight motor mansions on 18 Dec. Should be interesting.
Maybe we are all richer than we think?!
There's an interesting article out of the Louisville show in the Sunday NY Times. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/02RV.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1196618813-/WE9YT11X+OEin/AQwXB9Q
Fred
I believe that there needs to be some "green" comparisons done; hard scientific evidence that would serve as an industry reply. We might get only 8 mpg, but I know that we use less water and electricity now than when we were in the stick house. I am reasonably certain our "carbon footprint" is smaller than it was pre-fulltime.
Mike
Go RV Dreams!
Joe and Sherri
-- Edited by Speedhitch at 17:34, 2007-12-03
We each should send an e-mail to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) www.rvia.org, the association of RV virtually all manufacturers, and to the Family Motor Coach Association )FMCA www.fmca.com urging them to set the record straight. Both have a dog in this fight, as do we.
Granted the FMCA membership is for "powered RVs" only, but the article was about all of us. We need not identify whether we drive or tow our RVs. The article is painting a perception to legislators who can regulate all of us in the future.
I, for one, shall send an e-mail asking these two organizations to retort the article. How often do our RVs remain unmoved for weeks, if not months, at a time consuming not a single drop of fossil fuels? We simply do not drive everyday.
Those who do not express the real picture, cannot change the perception presented by errant and irresponsible editorial news writers.
Charles (now stepping off the soapbox)
We heat/cool a few hundred square feet versus a stick/brick few thousand,
We don't buy hundreds of pounds of fertilizers for our lawns/gardens,
Many of us simply drive far fewer miles per year as well,
and the biggest of them all,
We simply do not buy anywhere near the amount of stuff you do when you have an entire house to fill with stuff. Stuff makes pollution and we simply don't buy that much stuff!