pasttense said:
Dex: your numbers for gas are bizarre: you are going to use substantially more gas with an RV than driving a car, not less. Second your food costs: apparently you don't need to spend any money for food with an RV (neither from grocery stores nor restaurants?)??
The analysis computes the break even days between a motel and my RV.
The section below computes the NET VARIABLE DAILY COSTS FOR MOTEL VS A RV.
Per Day Costs
75 Motel Cost ------------------------------------------Motel room cost
40 Motel Food Costs----------------------------------Incremental Eating at a Resturant vs cooking in RV
10 Incremental Gas while towing per day--------Extra GAS/DAY while towing
-25 RV Hook UP---------------------------------------- RV hook up cost
100 Net Motel Cost
It there is a mistake it could be that I should have subtracted the incremental gas costs not added it. Then again I did the analysis and 3 minutes.
The MPG on my Pick Up went from 20 mpg to 16 mpg while towing last year - that was over 3 months over mountains etc.
Please provided your financial estimate - I'd like to see others to learn from.
Thanks
15,500 Purchase Price w/other necessities
800 Purchase Tax
16,300
978 Opportunity Cost for 16,300 @ 6%
2000 Depreciation
80 Insurance
840 Storage
250 Maintance
102 Misc
250 Annual Registration
4,500
Per Day Costs
75 Motel Cost
40 Incrementa - Motel Food Costs
-10 Incremental Gas while towing per day
-25 RV Hook UP
80 Net Motel Cost
56.25 Days to break even on Motel Vs RV