Gas vs electric cost calculation?

SDcampowneroperator wrote:

pulsar wrote:
A gallon of propane contains approximately 91,500 BTUs, which is equivalent to 26.8 kWh. To compare the costs, efficiencies would have to be considered. A typical propane furnace is probably about 85% efficient. At that rate, a gallon of propane provides about the same heat as 22.8 kWh of electricity.

The rest of the calculation depends on the prices of propane and electricity.

Since in our travels, we don't pay for electricity above the cost of the camp site, we use electricity for everything, when we have a 50-amp connection.

Tom

And us camp owners expect that and set our unmetered site fee schedules accordingly. You are welcome to use the power as available on unmetered sites. In our experience here on long term sites, with metered electric it is about 20% cheaper to use propane over our passed forward cost ( state regulated) elec. rate of $.14/KwH
Your state elec. rates and propane costs may be much different.

We have never stayed in a campground in which we were offered a metered site. Do you offer them to overnighters and two or three day campers? Do you offer metered sites only to long-stay campers?

We assume that we are being charged for the electricity we use, that is one of the reasons we us our electricity - usually for air conditioning, but sometimes for heat Occasionally, we are asked if we plan to use electric heat and are told there is an additional charge. In those instances, we use propane heat. We've not been asked if we were going to use A/C?

Tom