Diesel Tops $6, But RVers REFUSE to Stop Traveling!
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Diesel Tops $6, But RVers REFUSE to Stop Traveling!

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 202622 min

Diesel prices have soared past $6 a gallon, but are RVers canceling their trips and parking their rigs? Not according to our latest RV Lifestyle survey. In this week's RV Podcast News Edition, Mike Wendland reports on what hundreds of real RVers are saying about record-high diesel prices. We received 372 comments, and among roughly 300 people who directly answered our question, an overwhelming majority said they're either continuing to travel as planned or making adjustments to keep their RV adventures alive. But that's just the beginning of this week's RV news. ALSO IN THIS EPISODE:<...

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Hello everybody, I'm Mike Lemlin and this is the Monday RV Podcast News Edition for October 19, 2026, one of two RV Podcast episodes that we do every single week, this one publishing 6 am every Monday morning with the biggest news stories affecting the RV lifestyle. And then on Wednesday, Jennifer joins me for our Stories from the Road edition where we

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have interviews, share RV lifestyle tips and travel ideas and answer your questions. I'm a journalist by training. I spent more than 40 years working for big city newspapers, television stations, and network. And in that business, you learn to source every story. And that's what we do here. Jen and I came up in the news business and old habits die hard.

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We source our stories. We check the numbers and we try to separate what actually happened from what the press releases want you to believe happened. You'll find links to every story we report at the very end of the transcript for this episode at rvpodcast.com. You can go to the show notes page there, click the transcript tab, scroll down all the way to the bottom. You'll see

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