Archive for May, 2007

>If he’s running on empty, Bill Phillips easily can spend more than $600 to fill the fuel tank of his 45-foot-long Legendary Prevost motor coach.

“It heats up my credit card,” he said.

But Phillips said the high cost of fuel is not about to deter him from seeing the country behind the wheel of his luxury RV, which gets about 6 miles per gallon when he’s towing his Cadillac Escalade. The retired contractor from Clearwater, Fla., was parked recently at the Premier RV Resort in Coburg with his wife, Shaaron, and their three toy poodles, Cory, Cody and Rocky.

“You don’t like the higher prices, but you don’t buy the kind of rigs we drive and stay home because gas is up a quarter a gallon,” he said. “It doesn’t really affect my travel. You just ride and bitch, I guess.”
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>Bernie Hooper stands next to his RV and says, “This is my new home sweet home.”

Hooper used to drive 92 miles a day to work, each way. Now he walks about 20 steps.

A month ago, Hooper, who everyone calls Hoop, moved into the parking lot at his workplace. And he did it to save gas.

He says, “I was filling up three times a week. Compute that over a month. It runs about $732 a month. I can’t afford that.”

Hooper and his wife live in Sierra Vista, AZ. And he works in Tucson as lead instructor at Southwest Truck Driver Training.

He wouldn’t change either. So for more than three years he commuted everyday. He stopped when gas prices hit $3 a gallon.

Now Hooper lives in his RV at work on weekdays and he goes home on weekends.
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