Website review: Saving the Earth at 8 mpg
bluezfire discovered this in Environment
•25 reviews since Nov 23, 2007
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•andybaird.com/travels/saving-the-earth.htm
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bluezfire discovered 6 months ago- From the page: To most people with fulltime jobs, travel means vacation travel... and that means you pile into your car at the crack of dawn, drive like hell across three states to reach your destination, unpack all your gear, and spend a relaxing week fishing and goofing off. Then you pack up and drive hundreds of miles back home. The objective here is to drive long stretches - as long as humanly possible - in order to minimize your travel time and maximize your relaxing time, because you only have a week or two of vacation. But fulltime RVing isn't like that. To begin with, you have all the time in the world. There's no rush to get anywhere, so you aren't going to drive hundreds of miles a day every day - that would be insane. Most fulltimers I know think 200 miles is a l-o-n-g day's drive... 75 miles is more typical. And we don't move very often, either. My own preference is to find a nice place, stay two or three weeks, then drive 50-100 miles to the next nice place and repeat ad lib. Which brings me to the second common reaction: "Aren't you worried about gas prices?" After all, I'm driving a vehicle that averages 8 mpg. (Newer Lazy Dazes get 10.) Well, no, I'm not really worried--because I'm using less gas now than I was when I was working full time. How can that be? Well, I was commuting twenty miles to work (forty miles round trip) five days a week in my Honda Accord, a very nice car that averaged 29 mpg. Then of course on weekends I'd run errands, and sometimes drive out into the countryside looking for photos or to visit friends. Altogether I drove about 800 miles a month, using about 30 gallons of gasoline. Now let's look at the past two months, which are fairly typical of my new RVing lifestyle. I've camped mostly in beautiful state parks, with an average stay of two weeks per park. In between, I've driven an average of 224 miles a month, using 28 gallons a month of gas. That's right--I'm using slightly less gas now in my 8 mpg motorhome than I did when I was driving a 29 mpg car. .......... There have been many times, lately, that I have thought about how eco-friendly fulltime traveling really is and exactly how big of a carbon footprint it makes. This is a pretty good article of one man's breakdown of his footprint compared to that of when he lived in a "sticks and bricks". I'm interested in finding more articles like this involving a family as opposed to a single person and breaking it down to see the difference. As we get closer to taking off on our own adventure, I will be sure to document our own footprint and the come up with our overall impact for other's to see. Should be interesting.
- msiegel rated 3 days ago
- energy for life in an rv
- Tinney29 rated 2 months ago
- Post-modern Gypsy explains the financial benefits of life on the road.
- JoyChaser rated 4 months ago
- Great article from a green RVer.
- BiosyntheticLife rated 4 months ago
- This is the kind of person you might want to go RVing with. He's got it all sorted out. He explains how.
- elizabeth33 rated 4 months ago
- I'm turning 24 in about 24 hours. This is how I want to live my life.
- kaatarra rated 4 months ago
- great article... I'm using it along with Walden by Thoreau to discuss living a simple life in my 11th grade classroom.
- Don-Keehotay rated 5 months ago
- Food for thought. By the way, if anyone else looked in vain for the Thermos-Nissan Thermal Cooker, it's apparently no longer available. This works on the same principle and is actually available for purchase.
- FlightDreamz rated 5 months ago
- The kinder, gentler side of RVing. Or how to "tread softly" in an RV - good read.
- TONYYB rated 5 months ago
- SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO DO.
- 3melange rated 5 months ago
- Now this sounds like an economical and eco-friendly way to live and travel... "You are the master of your own destiny and the architect of your own fortune" and being green in the process
