- Texas Artist Captures Spirit of RV Lifestyle on Canvas
- Movie Star Vin Diesel’s $1.1 million Fifth Wheel RV
- Easy way to get your Fifth Wheel out of tight spot.
- Custom Truck Camper RV Built on Old Cab Over Truck
- VW Doubleback T5 California Class B Camper has Rear Slide-Out
- Motorhome with Hydraulic Lift-up Garage Door and Smart Car
- Older Single Women Living On The Road
- Dicor TPO RV Flooring Experiment
- Dicor Corporation demonstrates a stronger composite wall panel
- Campground Host Lives the Good Life
- Free Wi-Fi at Select Alabama State Parks Campgrounds
- Virgin Media will throttle heavy users’ broadband
- Three New Technologies May Change How You Use Wi-Fi
- WiFi WPS security vulnerability found, major router makers affected
- Belkin Wi-Fi Range Extender Works Well
- HughesNet Will Decommission Horizon 2 Satellite
- Some Impressions of HP’s Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse
- RV Park & Campground Wi-Fi Pushed to the Limits
- Free Wi-Fi in all US Taco Bells by 2015
- Verizon Plans Wi-Fi “Hot Zones” To Ease Burden on Mobile Network
Archive for January, 2007
>99% of Car Towing Capacity Lost Since 1970s
The shift in consumer preference to SUVs and light trucks for family transportation was driven not just by the desire for better comfort and safety — since 1970 fuel economy mandates that resulted in downsized vehicles caused 99 percent of cars to lose their ability to tow basic recreational equipment, Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America (SUVOA) announced today.
“The gutting of car towing capacity should be a wake up call that major lifestyle consequences could loom large as the nation contemplates the next wave of energy policy changes,” SUVOA President Barry W. McCahill said. “The threat is on several fronts — California’s carbon dioxide law and the 10 states that have chosen to follow suit; the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on the regulation of carbon dioxide; and proposed federal legislation to increase federal fuel economy standards.”
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Start planning the ultimate RV trip with the Great Western and Eastern RV Trips
>Mississippi campers can now plan camping trips online for the first time!.
ReserveAmerica, the United States’ leading outdoor recreation reservation and campground management solutions provider, has won a five year contract and recently launched a reservation service for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
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RV Emergency Road Service from the Good Sam Club
>Winter Texans Maurice Pacha of Washington, Iowa, and Gene Phagan of Greeley, Colo., are angry.
And, pulling a line from the satirical 1970s movie Network, they’re not going to take it anymore.
Velma Manship of Iowa and Shirley McDowell of Illinois feel pretty much the same way.
Double taxation of their RVs, they say, runs against common decency and notions of fairness.
Besides, the Constitution of Texas, as well as tax officials in Hidalgo and Cameron counties, says that an RV has to be “substantially affixed” to its site in an RV park to be subject to an annual real estate tax.
Yet Pacha and Phagan paid sales taxes on their RVs when they bought them and now, additionally, they and others are burdened by county real estate taxes of about $300 a year.
They aren’t alone. Since 2000, Winter Texans say, about $8 million in such taxes has been collected from RV owners in Hidalgo and Cameron counties.
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