Question for those that did Power Tour?

[Musclerodz]

Did you notice a change in attendance or number of long haulers due to the high gas prices?

[evilzee28]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

Did you notice a change in attendance or number of long haulers due to the high gas prices?

How much is fuel in the US now?? Here in Britain it's coming up close to $12.00 a gallon!!!!

[tones2SS]

Yeah, hopefully that's gonna change soon.
I guess the US, Britian and some other countries had this big meeting with Saudi Arabia about pumping more oil the other day. The Saudi's did agree to it, so hopefully that is going to help.

[camcojb]

we were told there were more this year than last. Not positive about the Long Haulers, but the attendance at the events was very good.

Jody

[JamesJ]

Originally Posted by evilzee28

How much is fuel in the US now?? Here in Britain it's coming up close to $12.00 a gallon!!!!

$4.30 Super

$4.75 Diesel

[XcYZ]

I'd say the Power Tour was a big as ever. Like Jody said, I'm not sure where the Long Haul numbers came in, but each stop was packed.

On a related note, I know the attendance was down at last year's Sturgis Rally. I wonder if that trend will continue.

[ccracin]

I was told by a friend that was just at the Street Rod Nationals East in York,PA that it was down. He said it looked like attendance was down as well as vendor participation. That could either gas cost or Street Rod popularity dropping or both. He was definately disappointed.

[jannes_z-28]

Sweden has at the moment $8,90 per gallon and it hurts the attendance at meetings this summer, a lot fewer cars show up.

Jan

[JV69z/28]

Originally Posted by ccracin

I was told by a friend that was just at the Street Rod Nationals East in York,PA that it was down. He said it looked like attendance was down as well as vendor participation. That could either gas cost or Street Rod popularity dropping or both. He was definately disappointed.

I was told the same thing. My friends said the lower attendence was really noticeable in the resturants with a lot shorter wait times. Which in turn shows how the high gas prices have a rippling effect on the overall economy.

[cmraman]

I had asked Rob Kinnan this same question in Madison. They did not have all the numbers, but they think there were about 1200 long-haulers. I asked if gas prices had an effect, his response was that gas has gone up only 15% over last year. So if you stop to think about it, it is really not a big increase. I had two friends from Phoenix drive their cars out and they came in way under their budget for gas. What might change is more and more fuel injected cars. My one buddy has a fuel injected car and was getting about 21 mpg. Which is not bad at all. My other friend has a carbureted engine, making just under 500hp and got 18 mpg. There isn't that much difference between those numbers and some of our daily drivers.