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Gas Prices - part 2
Yahoo Message Number: 149890
Lower gas prices and the overall recovery in the economy may translate into longer wait times for your new Lazy Daze ordered from the factory.
 Something to ponder if you are thinking of ordering new. And prices for used units are likely to go up  as the single largest cost of an RV (after the RV itself) continues to drop.
 $2 gas is likely to bring more RVers out onto the road and into the campgrounds.

Lovin it!

Todd
Todd (and Steve)
'17 Winnebago Minnie Winnie and '13 Honda CRV
(Former '99 RB owners from 2012-2016)
Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149893

  • "Lower gas prices and the overall recovery in the economy may translate into longer wait times for your new Lazy Daze ordered from the factory."

  • My translation - Lower gas prices and the overall recovery in the economy will translate into longer trips and more adventures in my LD than I thought possible. I'm keeping a record of savings vs. the $4 plus a gallon I was paying. I already have enough for a lobster or crab leg dinner at Giavonni's in Morro Bay. Can't wait.
  • I love gas at $2.19 a gallon!
Bob


Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149895

  • "Lower  gas prices and the overall recovery in the economy may translate into  longer wait times for your new Lazy Daze ordered from the factory."

  • My  translation - Lower gas prices and the overall recovery in the economy  will translate into longer trips and more adventures in my LD than I  thought possible. I'm keeping a record of savings vs. the $4 plus a  gallon I was paying. I already have enough for a lobster or crab leg  dinner at Giavonni's in Morro Bay. Can't wait.
  • I love gas at $2.19 a gallon!

I live in CO where the oil company are doing a lot of DEEP well drilling. Over a mile down. With the high gas prices they can justify the cost.

My thought: the Arabs are driving the oil cost down so it will not be cost effective to drill for oil this deep and once again put a stop to the drilling. Once the oil company's in this country stop the price will once again go back up. We are already seeing lay off in the oil drilling here with more to come. So don't count your saving to soon. Gas here in Denver is already down to 2.35 and still doping.
Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #7 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149921
Some 2 cents on oil market and economy.

Been trading/following oil market for over a decade.  All, if not all, markets are manipulated to the various degrees, it helps when Wall Street sends boatloads of money (campaign money aka bribes) to politicians in DC making them "untouchables".   (Yeah our voters are "low information" and easily fooled so far) Oil market is such a market that stayed high enough and long enough (it did once went up to $150 a barrel and then went down to around $35 in about 6 months back in 2008) which brought in fracking revolution which greatly increased oil production in USA and elsewhere (and reduce our dependency on oil imports) (along with ultra cheap credit (i.e. junk bonds)).   OPEC were really concerned about fracking revolution so they decide not to cut production and now we are seeing big oil price drops lately.   (Increased production vs falling demand)

It is true that lot of marginal players in fracking will be out of business (picking up the production/assets for pennies on the dollar by stronger players)and will continue to increase production in USA.  Eventually USA will become ne t exporter of oil in couple of years from now.  (So those arabs can go back to camel and date farming).

However the wildcard would be ISIS, et al setting oil fields in OPEC countries ablaze which would bring oil up to maybe past $150, even $200 or so temporarily as USA, Russia and EU keep ramping up the oil production which eventually bring oil price to normal range (around $20 to $40 a barrel or so).

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil.aspx?timeframe=10y

As for "economy recovery", it is mirage as our economy has been mostly flat-lining despite tons of new debt issuances.   We use fiat currency and fractional reserve banking which means most of our money is in form of debt and credit which is prone to inflationary and deflationary cycles.
Cash and coins are about 2% or so of the entire money supply ($1.3 trillion based on recent Fed Reserve data).

http://grandfather-economic-report.com/debt-nat.htm

See graph "TOTAL AMERICA DEBT VS National Income"  which shows total USA debt of $57 Trillion (based on 2010 data) while GDP (same as "national income") which is about $12 Trillion (2010 data).  The key thing in that graph is that it takes more and more debt to grow GDP.  It is like it takes $1.50 of new debt in order to grow a dollar of GDP back in 1970's and nowadays it is like $6 or so of new debt in order to grow a dollar of GDP and it is not sustainable.  Yes it is amazing that this charade has kept going for so long time than anyone thought possible, but nothing last forever.

Money is created when new debt is issued (increase money supply) and money is destroyed when debt is paid back or defaulted (reduce money supply).
We are coming to the point where it is getting harder and harder to pay back the debt and it is deflationary when lot of debt cannot be paid back.

I highly recommend checking/reading Generational Dynamics on daily basis (it is updated every night around 10 to 11pm EST) and it is short reading (1 to 3 mins read) but very informative and it is like a working crystal ball that we all can rely on.  In short, it is based on generational cycles (crisis and awakening eras and in between) and it happens so regularly that we can pretty much see the future by applying the generational dynamics analysis.

http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.weblog.htm

Jamie - 2004 23.5 LD FD
Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #8 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149924
Folks, we're drifting off-topic here. Yes, we all use gasoline... but then again, there are a lot of things we all use, such as computers, that we don't get into detail about in this forum. Let's close out this topic before it slides over the line into political discussion (which as you know, is out of bounds here, along with things like guns and religion), and get back to Lazy Daze matters, OK? :-)

Andy Baird

Travels with Andy
Andy Baird
2021 Ford Ranger towing 2019 Airstream 19CB
Previously: 1985 LD Twin/King "Gertie"; 2003 LD Midbath "Skylark"
Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #9 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149925
Some Great Information Jamie ! And ditto on what you wrote "Yeah our voters are "low information" and easily fooled so far" The problem with the "fracking" I feel anyhow, it is destroy'n our beautiful country side we all Love to explore, it pollutes our water ( what little water some states have) in the name of greed. Just say'n.. Thanks for all the info Jamie. I'm book marking them

JO
Re: Gas Prices - part 2
Reply #10 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149926
Opp's, sorry Andy.. I didn't see this post when I posted my comment. I agree with you Andy.. Lets stick to happy trails and happy times for sure. Lifes too short..
Weather radio bargain
Reply #11 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149931
Anybody remember Woot, the irreverent, original deal-a-day website? Well, Amazon bought them out a couple of years ago and proceeded to ruin the site. But founder Matt Rutledge, disgusted at seeing Woot turned into a shabby bazaar for Amazon's cast-offs, quit (the backstory is rather interesting) and set up a new site called Meh that adheres to Woot's founding principles: one deal a day, ridiculously low prices, and entertainingly goofy product descriptions.

Why am I bringing this up, right after my gentle reminder about drifting off-topic? Because today's Meh deal is a pair of Cobra CWR100 weather radios for eight bucks plus five bucks shipping. These radios receive all seven NOAA weather channels, notify you of S.A.M.E. severe-weather alerts (very important), run on AAA batteries, and cost seven bucks apiece postpaid. What's not to like? ;-)

Disclaimer: I don't own one of these (although I have a pair on order as of a few minutes ago), so I don't know how good they are. They're probably not the most deluxe weather radios in the world. But Cobra isn't exactly a schlock brand--Lazy Daze has installed Cobra CB radios for many years now--and at this price, you can't go too far wrong.

The usual deal-a-day caveats apply: these radios are on sale only until midnight eastern time on December 16th, or until supplies run out, whichever comes first. Speak now or forever hold your peace. Etc.

I just thought some folks here might want be interested. :-)

Andy Baird

Travels with Andy
Andy Baird
2021 Ford Ranger towing 2019 Airstream 19CB
Previously: 1985 LD Twin/King "Gertie"; 2003 LD Midbath "Skylark"
Re: Weather radio bargain
Reply #13 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149933
Thanks for this update, Andy. I did not know that Woot had been bought buy Amazon but have wondered why the Woot merchandise has not been particularly interesting the last year or so.

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
 
Re: Weather radio bargain
Reply #15 –
Yahoo Message Number: 149937
Thanks for posting this Andy. I ordered a set even includes batteries. A bargain. I'll have to watch that website in the future.

Bob