Total Fuel Consumption for Poker Run!

[Big Warlock]

I have it at 200 boats participating. I am guessing the average is going to be 300 gallons (I am taking into consideration ALL boats, big and small. I am not really looking at trick fuel or anything.
300 X 200 = 60,000 gallons @ $3.75 per gallon = $225,000!!!
And how many of our friends will raft up? (100 X 50 gallons?) 5,000 gallons
Booze and food tab? (200 boats times $500 easily!) = $100,000
Hotel = $200,000 @ $1K per boat.
Hmmm, someone ought to bring this up to the city fathers! LOL

[NOTALENT]

Damn....good thing for boat bitches..... :p

[OnlyMoney]

BW, slow day? :rollside: I'm glad you put that out there. All I know is it's a LOT of dinero.

[C-2]

Poker run.....what poker run...somebody's having a poker run? :220v: :220v: :220v:

[H20 Toie]

i had better not use 300 gal, the most i have used is 200 in a day

[phebus]

You should post this on the Greenpeace web site so we can watch those enviros shit :)

[C-2]

The Havasu Toursim Board luvs the poker run. Their feedback from local merchants is that poker run weekend generates more money than any other weekend during the year, even longer holiday weekends. Seems we attract spenders, not undesirables who buy beer and sunblock only.
As logical as it sounds to remind the city of these facts - there is an illogical mayor in charge so I think we should tread lightly. ;)

[phebus]

Seems we attract spenders, not undesirables who buy beer and sunblock only.
Hey, up yours :)

[SoCalSouthpaw]

Dont forget the stripper fund. :)

[UncleLarry]

Come now --- haven't you all heard that all out of towners.. bring in their our gas. Yep thats what we were told at one of the council meetings.. That when boaters come to Havasu - they bring all their own stuff.
Disclaimer - some in town said that.. BUT BUT those of us that work about the boating industry know its not true..
Heres a story for you...
Marine industry brings in $191 million
By BRIAN DiTULLIO
Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:06 PM MDT
The local marine industry has added $191 million annually to the local economy.
With Lake Havasu at our toes, the marine industry has contributed a great deal to the local economy. In fact, the economic output is estimated to be $191 million annually.
In association with the Partnership for Economic Development, the Lake Havasu City Marine Association hired Research Economist Tom Tveidt of Competitive Strategies Group, LLC, to conduct an analysis of the core marine industry in Lake Havasu City. The 28-page report was delivered to City Council last week.
“For every job in the marine industry, several other jobs benefit from it,” said Tveidt. “It's not just an isolated industry.”
Tveidt used nothing but data collected from state and federal sources.
“It's all raw data to be as objective as possible,” he said.
Tveidt hit several points in his executive summary that PED Economic Specialist James Gray noted weren't really that visible until they were pointed out, including annual payroll, wage levels, economic growth and tax revenues.
Tourism was not included due to its subjective factors, according to Tveidt, and would be subject to bias; and open to too much interpretation.
“This study shows numbers that are guaranteed,” said Gray. “We can use this to attract more marine-related business to Lake Havasu City.
The numbers reflect sales, shipments, wages and other non-tourism factors in the core marine industry. The core marine industry consists of several groups, boat manufacturers, sales, rental and storage and the maintenance sector.
“It's just the industry around boats,” said Tveidt.
PED Executive Director Gary Kellogg said he will use the study to help focus on the “nuts and bolts” of the industry when going out to recruit new marine business.
By the numbers, the industry employs more than 900 people with an annual payroll of $29.6 million that results in an annual economic output of $191.1 million, according to the study.
Wages in the industry are about 17 percent more than the local average wage, $15.96 per hour compared to $13.65 an hour countywide.
By comparison, the study shows the average wage in the local construction industry is $14.35 per hour and health care workers average between $8.75 and $12.96 an hour with only licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses earning more than $16 per hour.
In the last five years, there has been a 91 percent increase in boat building, according to the study, and the total economic impact of the core industry equals 1,401 jobs each year that are impacted directly or indirectly.
Both Kellogg and Gray said they were stunned at the numbers presented even though they knew the marine industry was a large factor locally.
“Everybody kind of knows what kind of businesses are around here,” said Gray. “You drive by them every day but once the facts came out, it was quite stunning.”
“The study speaks for itself,” said Kellogg. “We have a cluster industry here.”

[moneypit]

I have it at 200 boats participating. I am guessing the average is going to be 300 gallons (I am taking into consideration ALL boats, big and small. I am not really looking at trick fuel or anything.
300 X 200 = 60,000 gallons @ $3.75 per gallon = $225,000!!!
And how many of our friends will raft up? (100 X 50 gallons?) 5,000 gallons
Booze and food tab? (200 boats times $500 easily!) = $100,000
Hotel = $200,000 @ $1K per boat.
Hmmm, someone ought to bring this up to the city fathers! LOL
If my wife and I drank 500 dollars in alcohol we would drive straight to Betty Ford Clinic.

[Big Warlock]

I was hoping to get away with that for the whole weekend. and it's an average per boat. However, I guarantee I will spend the following:
1) Rooms (2 condos) = $1,200
2) Fuel (260 gallon fillup X 2) = $1,690
3) Bar Tabs for my crew (6) = $1,000 or maybe more
4) Food = $1,500
5) Wifey crap along the way for her and her friends $500
6) Fuel for the truck $500
Conservative total for the weekend = $5,890 for six of us to have a good time! :yuk:
AND I am not pulling my boat there, Hale's Marine (Phoenix, Az.) is delivering the boat and bringing it back! Thanks Ed Hale for a great friggin job you do for us! And I didn't include the price for the poker run, extra hands, etc. etc.

[shueman]

The Havasu Toursim Board luvs the poker run. Their feedback from local merchants is that poker run weekend generates more money than any other weekend during the year, even longer holiday weekends. Seems we attract spenders, not undesirables who buy beer and sunblock only.
As logical as it sounds to remind the city of these facts - there is an illogical mayor in charge so I think we should tread lightly. ;)
Have a great run......just add the tab to the $191MM......
Wonder if the Mayor/CC will come out... :rolleyes:

[NautiTwins]

I was hoping to get away with that for the whole weekend. and it's an average per boat. However, I guarantee I will spend the following:
1) Rooms (2 condos) = $1,200
2) Fuel (260 gallon fillup X 2) = $1,690
3) Bar Tabs for my crew (6) = $1,000 or maybe more
4) Food = $1,500
5) Wifey crap along the way for her and her friends $500
6) Fuel for the truck $500
Conservative total for the weekend = $5,890 for six of us to have a good time! :yuk:
AND I am not pulling my boat there, Hale's Marine (Phoenix, Az.) is delivering the boat and bringing it back! Thanks Ed Hale for a great friggin job you do for us! And I didn't include the price for the poker run, extra hands, etc. etc.
BALLER!!

[USCFAN]

I was hoping to get away with that for the whole weekend. and it's an average per boat. However, I guarantee I will spend the following:
1) Rooms (2 condos) = $1,200
2) Fuel (260 gallon fillup X 2) = $1,690
3) Bar Tabs for my crew (6) = $1,000 or maybe more
4) Food = $1,500
5) Wifey crap along the way for her and her friends $500
6) Fuel for the truck $500
Conservative total for the weekend = $5,890 for six of us to have a good time! :yuk:
AND I am not pulling my boat there, Hale's Marine (Phoenix, Az.) is delivering the boat and bringing it back! Thanks Ed Hale for a great friggin job you do for us! And I didn't include the price for the poker run, extra hands, etc. etc.
Know that is a baller! Are you looking for any friends? :)

[Big Warlock]

Jeeesh, I know that at least 50 of the boats are going to spend that and a lot more!! Some of those guys have rigs that cost as much as the boat! I don't consider myself a BALLER. Just a guy sitting in his office doing the math and saying "Holy Crap!" This is going to be a decent weekend for the LH economy! :220v:
Half of you guys are driving out from Ca., will buy dinner a couple of times, load your boats with gas, Goose and beer. How much you figure your into it before the weekend is over? And just be tied up in the flotilla? Bet it's more than your willing to admit! :yuk:

[AZJD]

Jeeesh, I know that at least 50 of the boats are going to spend that and a lot more!! Some of those guys have rigs that cost as much as the boat! I don't consider myself a BALLER. Just a guy sitting in his office doing the math and saying "Holy Crap!" This is going to be a decent weekend for the LH economy! :220v:
Half of you guys are driving out from Ca., will buy dinner a couple of times, load your boats with gas, Goose and beer. How much you figure your into it before the weekend is over? And just be tied up in the flotilla? Bet it's more than your willing to admit! :yuk:
Just a trip to lake Pleasant runs me $150.00 with fuel for both now, and beer, ice, food, smokes, red bull and parking! $300.00 for a 2 day weekend, and thats bare minimum. Throw a dinner in there after the lake and add 50.00
Still cheaper than the day and a half of boating you get on a Havasu trip, with a tab of around 500-600 bucks.

[Jordy]

I sat down and figured out what it cost for an average weekend on the lake staying local and it was depressing. Vowed I'll never do it again. It's something that I enjoy so screw it. I'd be throwing money somewhere else if I wasn't on the water. May as well have fun. :D

[AZJD]

I sat down and figured out what it cost for an average weekend on the lake staying local and it was depressing. Vowed I'll never do it again. It's something that I enjoy so screw it. I'd be throwing money somewhere else if I wasn't on the water. May as well have fun. :D
Just think of all the 200 and 300 dollar nights at the Candy Store this winter, when we were bored and had nothing to do! It's no different, it's going to be spent somewhere, atleast you get to use you boat payment's worth during the summer.

[THATJEFFGUY]

....and those figures don't even take into consideration all the broken shit that the local boat mechanics will cash in on after the run ! :cry:

[H20 Toie]

yep i figure if nothing breaks i spent between 2-3k every weekend that i went to havasu.

[Big Warlock]

The cost of boating goes beyond just the boat payment! And most people that go along for the ride would never guess how much it really costs. Thanks for the input. :cool:

[Dusty Times]

I was hoping to get away with that for the whole weekend. and it's an average per boat. However, I guarantee I will spend the following:
1) Rooms (2 condos) = $1,200
2) Fuel (260 gallon fillup X 2) = $1,690
3) Bar Tabs for my crew (6) = $1,000 or maybe more
4) Food = $1,500
5) Wifey crap along the way for her and her friends $500
6) Fuel for the truck $500
Conservative total for the weekend = $5,890 for six of us to have a good time! :yuk:
AND I am not pulling my boat there, Hale's Marine (Phoenix, Az.) is delivering the boat and bringing it back! Thanks Ed Hale for a great friggin job you do for us! And I didn't include the price for the poker run, extra hands, etc. etc.
CHEAP ASS!!!!!!! lol

[Jrocket]

If my wife and I drank 500 dollars in alcohol we would drive straight to Betty Ford Clinic.
LMAO!

[beyondhelpin]

I was hoping to get away with that for the whole weekend. and it's an average per boat. However, I guarantee I will spend the following:
1) Rooms (2 condos) = $1,200
2) Fuel (260 gallon fillup X 2) = $1,690
3) Bar Tabs for my crew (6) = $1,000 or maybe more
4) Food = $1,500
5) Wifey crap along the way for her and her friends $500
6) Fuel for the truck $500
Conservative total for the weekend = $5,890 for six of us to have a good time! :yuk:
AND I am not pulling my boat there, Hale's Marine (Phoenix, Az.) is delivering the boat and bringing it back! Thanks Ed Hale for a great friggin job you do for us! And I didn't include the price for the poker run, extra hands, etc. etc.
Tight wad!
A real baller would take 8 peeps! Emailing my cell to you just in case. :crossx: :crossx: :crossx:

[Magic34]

Damn, hope someone is there selling those fuel pills to help me save money. :skull:
"Run it through 4 tanks per side and then you will notice a 20% savings"

[SummitKarl]

Come now --- haven't you all heard that all out of towners.. bring in their our gas. Yep thats what we were told at one of the council meetings.. That when boaters come to Havasu - they bring all their own stuff.
Disclaimer - some in town said that.. BUT BUT those of us that work about the boating industry know its not true..
Heres a story for you...
Marine industry brings in $191 million
By BRIAN DiTULLIO
Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:06 PM MDT
The local marine industry has added $191 million annually to the local economy.
With Lake Havasu at our toes, the marine industry has contributed a great deal to the local economy. In fact, the economic output is estimated to be $191 million annually.
In association with the Partnership for Economic Development, the Lake Havasu City Marine Association hired Research Economist Tom Tveidt of Competitive Strategies Group, LLC, to conduct an analysis of the core marine industry in Lake Havasu City. The 28-page report was delivered to City Council last week.
“For every job in the marine industry, several other jobs benefit from it,” said Tveidt. “It's not just an isolated industry.”
Tveidt used nothing but data collected from state and federal sources.
“It's all raw data to be as objective as possible,” he said.
Tveidt hit several points in his executive summary that PED Economic Specialist James Gray noted weren't really that visible until they were pointed out, including annual payroll, wage levels, economic growth and tax revenues.
Tourism was not included due to its subjective factors, according to Tveidt, and would be subject to bias; and open to too much interpretation.
“This study shows numbers that are guaranteed,” said Gray. “We can use this to attract more marine-related business to Lake Havasu City.
The numbers reflect sales, shipments, wages and other non-tourism factors in the core marine industry. The core marine industry consists of several groups, boat manufacturers, sales, rental and storage and the maintenance sector.
“It's just the industry around boats,” said Tveidt.
PED Executive Director Gary Kellogg said he will use the study to help focus on the “nuts and bolts” of the industry when going out to recruit new marine business.
By the numbers, the industry employs more than 900 people with an annual payroll of $29.6 million that results in an annual economic output of $191.1 million, according to the study.
Wages in the industry are about 17 percent more than the local average wage, $15.96 per hour compared to $13.65 an hour countywide.
By comparison, the study shows the average wage in the local construction industry is $14.35 per hour and health care workers average between $8.75 and $12.96 an hour with only licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses earning more than $16 per hour.
In the last five years, there has been a 91 percent increase in boat building, according to the study, and the total economic impact of the core industry equals 1,401 jobs each year that are impacted directly or indirectly.
Both Kellogg and Gray said they were stunned at the numbers presented even though they knew the marine industry was a large factor locally.
“Everybody kind of knows what kind of businesses are around here,” said Gray. “You drive by them every day but once the facts came out, it was quite stunning.”
“The study speaks for itself,” said Kellogg. “We have a cluster industry here.”
191m + (800 or so bldg permits @ $450k ea "includes land" = 360m)
total $551m :wink:
and we thank you for your donation :)

[maxwedge]

If You guys used used Bio-fuel powder, drank free water, and slept on park benches, you would be soooo money ahead. :D

[Big Warlock]

Forgot about my friend Dustin, that will cost me!!! LOL :p

[Big Warlock]

He has his own big damn boat to worry about!

[Essex29]

a friend of mine sent me this after i told him how much gas people go through.... think about this while filling up... :argue: :p :rollside:
http://www.renewus.org/index.html

[Big Warlock]

We will miss you at the lake for sure! Enjoy your new solar powered car and let us know where your place under the freeway will be! :cry:
A quick look at history of the earth will explain what is happening and what will happen. There has already been an ice age and a tremedous heat wave throughout the earth. Although the earth has been around for millions of years, only 2000 years ago, 7 million people inhabitated the earth. Want to help out? Hand out condoms in Africa, India, china and other countries in the east. Pollution? We agree, however, as the country that spends 40% of the world's energy, we only contribute to less than 10 % of the actual pollutants in the air. Third world countries do worse by far with pollution and garbage disposal into our seas and their lands.
How does the world end? Not too difficult to figure out! Population has doubled in my life. The world will end with huge amounts of suffering at the hands of morons that continue to send money to people in camps for food and existence. The continue to stay there, have sex and multiply. So more kids can come into the world, be miserable and be on TV with some moronic celebrity so you people will continue to send money so they can have more babies. The world will become so populated it will no longer sustain life. That is the end of the world. Still a long way off my friends.
But please don't get on a soap box and tell me that I am responsible for global warming. That is just plain dumb and unfounded. The earth has been through several periods of cold and warm. I agree with the pollution, but you are barking up the wrong tree. The earth will purge itself of the culprits. Humans will not exist in a million years. Get over it! :yuk:

[Jordy]

So more kids can come into the world, be miserable and be on TV with some moronic celebrity so you people will continue to send money so they can have more babies.
But they will have a nice new designer dress or suit on everytime they're up there, holding back tears, begging for your donations. :D :D :D

[Dusty Times]

I vow to use my part and more of the worlds depleting natural resources next week.
For those of you who are offended by my waste of fuel I will not hold it wide open all day long in an effort to conserve fuel and energy. :rollside:

[Essex29]

We will miss you at the lake for sure! Enjoy your new solar powered car and let us know where your place under the freeway will be! :cry:
A quick look at history of the earth will explain what is happening and what will happen. There has already been an ice age and a tremedous heat wave throughout the earth. Although the earth has been around for millions of years, only 2000 years ago, 7 million people inhabitated the earth. Want to help out? Hand out condoms in Africa, India, china and other countries in the east. Pollution? We agree, however, as the country that spends 40% of the world's energy, we only contribute to less than 10 % of the actual pollutants in the air. Third world countries do worse by far with pollution and garbage disposal into our seas and their lands.
How does the world end? Not too difficult to figure out! Population has doubled in my life. The world will end with huge amounts of suffering at the hands of morons that continue to send money to people in camps for food and existence. The continue to stay there, have sex and multiply. So more kids can come into the world, be miserable and be on TV with some moronic celebrity so you people will continue to send money so they can have more babies. The world will become so populated it will no longer sustain life. That is the end of the world. Still a long way off my friends.
But please don't get on a soap box and tell me that I am responsible for global warming. That is just plain dumb and unfounded. The earth has been through several periods of cold and warm. I agree with the pollution, but you are barking up the wrong tree. The earth will purge itself of the culprits. Humans will not exist in a million years. Get over it! :yuk:
Chill big guy..you might miss me at the lake next weekend, but it wont be because I was trying to save the world :220v: .....I was just sharing what he sent me. It wont change the amount of gas that I use in my boat either....
Have fun out there :)

[Big Warlock]

ok, I was a little harsh. Just didn't want to see a fellow HB fall off the wagon here! It's about the boats, water, friends and such. God wants us to have a good time. He made celebrities to represent the groups of morons that abound! :crossx: