Tx. and CRG mentioned something about the cost of diesel yesterday. How much is fuel in your area?? I-95 exit 138 in North Carolina, it"s...

Gasoline $3.12

Diesel $3.56

I checked my milage a couple weeks ago, pulling the 6 H2H with 5 horses and all the show tack, cart, water and etc. and got a whopping 7.6 mpg running between 68 and 70 mph on flat ground..... Cheverolet 8.1 gas, Allison auto, 4.10 gears. Going to be an expensive show season.

That's why I gave up doing Competitive Trail Riding.

I got tired of my gas credit card bill coming in a UPS box!

Ford F350 Powerstroke pulling a 4 horse 8' LQ thats weighs 16,000lbs loaded. I get around 12 mpg

I filled up yesterday at $3.39

You can check the current prices at any Flying J truck stop across the country at

http://www.flyingj.com/fuel/gasoline_CF.cfm

 $3.19 gas,$3.59 a gal diesel in Western PA, usually 14 mpg regardless of which trailer.

How did your tire situation work out? Earlier you were concerned about the heat and durability of your new tires. Everything OK? Now that you have some miles under your belt, how do you like your new trailer? Great looking rig.

Gard

I'm on the Kansas/Missouri Line so I drive to Missouri for Diesel. Filled up yesterday - $98.00. OOOWWEEYY! Have a 2006 Ford 350 4-door DRW.
Kansas - $3.59
Missouri - $3.39

Prices have definately limited our riding vacation plans this year. Going to do more local area riding within 2-3 hours of our home.

There is one local station that is away from the interstate that still has diesel at $3.19.  All the others are $3.39 - $3.59.

We will camp and ride this year.  But we won't eat out as much and even dinners at home will done on the cheap.

RIDE ON!

Well, I hope you are sitting down, because T. Boone Pickens predicted $150 a barrel oil by the end of this year!!!! Oh, he is SHORTING Oil at the moment!!!

He predicted that oil would fall back about $15 a barrel in the short run and then if nothing changes in the US...the price of oil will go up to cover the depreciating value of the dollar and the worldwide demand, especially in China and India...

My first action was to get rid of the wife's GMC Jimmy and replace it with a Honda Civic Hybrid while they were on sale and had 2.9% financing...

I heard this last night on NBC news.  Gas expected to be at $4.50 this summer.  That will probably put diesel over $5.  I expect we'll have to sell the big truck and trailer.  But how will that affect the "big truck", "big trailer" market??  Who's gonna want to buy them if you can't afford to drive/haul them??

Really sucks !

If the trailer prices drop enough I'd buy one for those few ocassions we'd use it.  I'm considering harness breaking all of my horses so I can use that to drive the kids to school.  I don't know how the city will like it, but I really don't care. 

5 miles to one school, then 2 miles to the other and 6 miles home.  How long would that take?  Take 2 horses switch them at the second school, each pair works every other day......  Maybe my husband would quit complaining about how much it cost for hay.

 my husband has always driven a truck (at least for the 25 years i have known him.)  he recently got one of those small VW jettas (a diesel) for running around. we were all holding our sides from laughing so much when we first saw him in that tiny car, but after he told us he gets about 40 to 45 mpg on the freeway, we quit laughing.  now the rest of the family borrows his car whenever possible.  (it took a while to get used to driving I10, a daily occurrence, driving next to an 18 wheeler.)  he still has his truck for when he needs it but rarely drives it now.

does anyone think that trailer prices really will go down because of the high fuel prices??  i was getting close to ordering a LQ trailer in the next month but if prices are going to drop because of high fuel prices, i will gladly wait.

"does anyone think that trailer prices really will go down because of the high fuel prices??"

  Hasn't made any difference up to this point. We all keep buying high priced fuel, and there will always be a plentiful supply high priced trailers to pick from. It takes alot of fuel to build that trailer!

What can you pull with a Geo?

Gard

I really doubt you will see new trailer prices go down.  I just got a letter from my steel supplier saying steel was jumping up in price 15% on March 1st.

Anything heavy that requires trucking in going up in cost as fuel prices continue to go up. So I expect other metals to also go up. (steel is not an isolated metal)

Used trailer prices my drop as people have a harder time selling them. But don't expect new trailer prices to drop. Raw materials are not getting cheaper.