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JC2
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Feb 16, 2016

Average Monthly Cost-Electricity When Snowbirding Nov-March

Effective 4/30/2016, the wife retires and we begin our extensive long timing episode. We will be staying in our 2004 Newmar 40ft MH at one of the yet to be decided 55+ parks in the RGV from Nov(2016)...
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GoPackGo
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Feb 21, 2016
joebedford wrote:
GoPackGo wrote:
And remember that the cg is probably not the cheapest place to buy propane.
It's $27 for a 30lb cylinder in our park in the RGV. Discovered a filling station a few miles away that does them for $16. I wouldn't make a special trip, but if I'm headed that way, of course...


That's what I'm getting at. At $16 for a fill (7.2 gallons), that would be about $2.22/gallon. I'm pretty sure that would beat using electric heat.

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