Cost of propane vs gas generator.

MrWizard wrote:


places that fill from a Bulk tank also need electricity for the electric pump that fills the bottle with propane

I guess you know more about my neighborhood than I do. Wow.

I made it absolutely clear that I was making no case for RV usage. I was making a case for my brick and motor location in the MD suburbs of DC.

In the past two years we've had two area-wide outages of electricity that left virtually no gas stations able to pump gas. The few stations that had power, typically from generators, ran out of fuel in short order resulting is solving the long line problem at their station.

The multiple rental centers in Montgomery County that pump propane all have generators. None of them hiked the price on their propane. I have six twenty pound propane bottles that I use for my patio grill and modified generator. A couple of bottles will last me a day or so - without furnace or A/C. No carb gumming issues. No fuel going bad. Arguably safer to store propane. The slight cost premium in my brick and mortar environment means nothing for maybe once a year or more usage. The total confidence that the generator will start immediately in spite of having sat idle for 6 or months is priceless to me.

If it is important to indicate that I am wrong as to what goes on in MY brick and mortar neighborhood when I've made absolutely no comment as to propane use in an RV, please delete my post.

It was only meant to be helpful

Thank God I did not mention what brand my generator is.