CheapHeat System?
In the Dec 2013 issue of TRAILER LIFE magazine there is an article on the CheapHeat after-market electric system. I was shocked to read the authors proclaim even additional savings when in camp gro...
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joe b. wrote:
Summer before we spent a month at a campground in Colorado with our 5th wheel, where the monthly rate did Not include electricity. At the end of the month at check out, they read my site electric meter and we owed them $46 which meant we had used $1.53 of electricity a day on the average. This was running the roof AC everyday and some nights, plus heating domestic water, running the fridge, lights, TV, etc.
I highly suspect most campgrounds add in considerably more than $1.53 a day to their short term rates for electric sites. As long as they don't show electric cost as a seperate cost, they can charge whatever they wish and that the market will allow.
Thank you! This is what I suspected - most RVs "gobbling" electricity still aren't using very much; and those costs are built into the site rate. I would MUCH rather have someone using "massive" amounts of electricity (which we're limited to 30 amp or 50 amps) parked next to me; than have them run their generators so they don't consume too much of the park's electric.
Using a park's electric is not "stealing" - it's part of the service we pay for.
