{"id":181834,"date":"2026-05-02T02:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181834\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:32:06","slug":"gas-price-surge-impacts-prospective-rv-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181834\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas price surge impacts prospective RV buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the annual Northeast PA RV show, potential RV and trailer buyers now consider the added cost of higher gas prices with their purchase. <\/p>\n<p>MOOSIC, Pa. \u2014 Within a day, gas prices in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Lackawanna County<\/a> rose from $4.39 cents to more than $4.45.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank god I don&#8217;t drive a motorhome,&#8221; said Marques Gower from Shavertown.<\/p>\n<p>Here at the Northeast PA RV show in the parking lot of PNC Field in Moosic, gas prices are a factor for some folks browsing for trailers and RVs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re getting bad, because my truck&#8217;s diesel so it&#8217;s really crazy \u2026 what it costs to fill that thing up, 35 gallon tank,&#8221; said Mike Shelhamer from Berwick.<\/p>\n<p>Shellhammer bought a new trailer here at the RV show, which some manufacturers say is a bit more fuel-efficient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve actually made their framework a lot lighter so you can tow them in with a hybrid, like Lexus or any hybrid, Ford, Chevy, Toyota, doesn&#8217;t matter, and make it fuel efficient that way,&#8221; said Wayne Lehto, a general sales manager at Colton RV.<\/p>\n<p>But still, for folks who hit the road towing big trailers often, high gas prices now take up a bigger chunk of the travel budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m budgeting it in; it&#8217;ll be more than we expected it to be. It really went up in the last couple of weeks, but we traveled before when it was even higher, so it&#8217;s something we&#8217;re used to,&#8221; said Jeff Mosier from Wilkes Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Some say the cost is worth it for the experience of driving and staying wherever they want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is what it is, I mean, I&#8217;m not happy about it, but we&#8217;re not going to let it stop us from enjoying ourselves because we&#8217;re just recently retired, so we&#8217;re going to go out and still have a good time,\u201d said Shelhamer. \u201cLittle more pain at the pump, so to speak, but we&#8217;re going to enjoy it even more when we get out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the annual Northeast PA RV show, potential RV and trailer buyers now consider the added cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-181834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}