RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

Checked Gas Buddy for today's gasoline prices. All reporting stations were $3.25, amazing.....:R Diesel was $3.99 and $4.05. Now if prices would drop to under $3.00.

According to this week's Department of Energy's Annual Energy Outlook, fossil fuel's contribution to nations total energy will fall from it's present level of 84.3% to 80.1 by the year 2040 (28 years from now.)

Renewables defined as (wood, municipal waste, biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal, solar, and wind for generation in the electric power sector; and ethanol for gasoline blending and biomass-based diesel in the transportation sector),


http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/according-to-government-forecast-abundant-and-reliable-fossil-fuels-will-supply-80-of-u-s-energy-demand-in-2040/

Schilo's is a great restaurant that is short walk from the river. They have many animal heads on the wall and are about a century old. Food is very good. The Texas Museum is very interesting also. Those girls on the street corner are not waiting on the bus.

This is our 4th trip here. Will do river walk tomorrow to see if Xmas stuff is up then to Hard Rock for a shirt and a pin or 2 (I have hundreds). Alamo for a new shirt too.

We went down 410 to downtown and went to Papa la Dieux for dinner (3 pound lobster yummm) BUT in going back to the CG we were back into the freeway things again. The surface road to the freeway had many people trying to enter from both sides at the same place (rally dumb) blind exists into the road from the freeway (dumb) Darn near 90 degree entrance to the freeway (dumb).
Take me back to Mich for a dose of road thinking!

Seen something new today on I 10 a guy with a small truck ( i mean small) towing another truck maybe a 1500 size loaded to the roof and then a rack with a boat and much more stuff and ................. a car being towed by the second truck with mattress' on the roof and the car full of things to the roof!
This was in foot hills with 7% grades!
Ah life in Texas.

Alamo is OK, but the real thrill is San Jacinto, nearby, where the Texians beat Santa Anna in the rematch after the Alamo disaster. They setup their lines so that Santa Annas cannons couldn't reach them (cannon balls often hitting the ground and rolling to the Texian lines).

I visited about 30-40 years ago and had the adventure of touring the old USS Texas battlewagon from WW2, pulled up in the estuary, a real thrill! There seemed to be no security guards or tour guides that day, so I made my own tour, which gave me a chance to see the breeches of the big guns in the turrets, and go below and see the shot and powder magazines. That place must have been a living hell during bombardment! A tight, confined place with extraordinary noise and heat, and the ever present danger of explosion from the big bags of powder that came up on the ammo elevator!

Then I found a display behind glass of old documents from the 1840s from the original USS Texas during the days of filibusters against Mexico. It wasn't locked so I could read thru a sailors diary from the 1840s about his sailing out of Galveston en route to a filibuster, and an account of the Captain exacting justice from some failed sailors, hanging two from the yardarms and keelhauling a couple others, by casting them off one side of the Boat with a rope around the waist, then hauling them underneath and up on the other side so they got horribly scraped against the barnacle covered bottom.

It was a different time!

The downtown area of San Antonio is very nice with the river walk. Don't forget the Alamo.

Texas sucks for entrance and exit ramps. Good grief if you are on I 10 and pull off for fuel you have to get to 30mph in what seems 50 feet. Try to get back on and not being just a car you cannot get to the speed in the road provided. This is compounded by the cars that enter without a clue.

San Antonio fuel $3.89 Oh yeah this city has never finished doing roads I 10 is fair but the loop sucks and the frontal roads are a mess.
Have to go thru Houston in a day or so and if you are doing I 10 ... hold as the NASCAR boys try to run you off the road while I 10 moves about 10 lanes changes. What fun..... not.

We paid $1.85/gal last week when our propane tank was filled. It's a real crapshoot with some of the suppliers. One national company we used was always more expensive than all the rest. I don't know how they stay in business. They really don't have a rate. They'll charge $3 or more, then reduce it if you complain they charged the guy across the road 1.95.

Another company never got the billing right. They'd offer a discount if you had a credit card on file, then not give the discount until you called them about it. Then half the time they'd accidentally double the discount, then want it back next time.

A third company's delivery man brought his child along. The youngster turned the valve off, shutting down the furnace and water heater on a very cold Friday. When we got home that evening I called their emergency number. No answer all weekend! Fortunately, I discovered the problem and the pipes didn't freeze.

If you're on a natural gas line, count your blessings.

DelCamper wrote:
Where is your source of 70% of propane from Natural Gas? Please link.

That is unknown to me.

I'll post the link anyway, some good reading on propane.

http://www.choosepropane.org/whatpropane.cfm#

I found the propane from NG source.

Well I just learned something. I never knew 70% was from NG.

Thanks