Gas vs electric cost calculation?
If you are paying for your own electric, when does it pay to use gas instead? Is there a formula? Thanks!
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pnichols wrote:JaxDad wrote:
The other is price of fuel, in the S & B you're paying by the metered gallon, in an RV (unless you rent a big tank) you're paying by the pound, a notoriously expensive way to do it.
Hmmm .... whenever we fill the built-in 18 gallon propane tank on our Class C motorhome the charge is always by the gallon. I usually watch the meter on the big tank at the facility that the nozzle is drawing from as they fill our tank. Those meters read in "gallons". It's been that way for all places where we have filled the tank at over the years. I've never heard of paying for propane by the pound.
Maybe it's a U.S. versus Canada difference?
Sorry if it was confusing.
This is 'general RV'ing' not one of the motorhome sections, and about the cost of heating so I answered both in broad general terms and on the basis that talk of long term cost of heat meant the unit was parked, not driving about to refill the tanks.
Obviously ASME tanks are filled based on volume not weight, it would be difficult to weigh the motorhome to see when the tank was full.
