Saving gas

We're out about 260 nights every year and always on EHU pitches. We use electrics for most of our cooking, having a single electric plate & the microwave, and all of our heating - Alde - is done with electrics. We do use the oven on gas and occasionally use a gas ring. A 3.9 kg Propane bottle usually last us over a year.

Write your comments here... That is a serious amount of caravanning NTH! Have you ever worked out your annual site fees? Are you tempted to follow Merve's example of solar panels, Safefill and non EHUs and worked out the potential saving? It is good to hear someone enjoying their caravan - it would take me 4 yrs to achieve your total !

Merve keeps on at me to consider swapping but I think I'm a bit long in the tooth to start swapping over all our equipment. We spent £3049 on site fees last year which worked out at an average of £11.73 per night, which we didn't think too bad, as we were on EHU all year.

Moonchip fresh is essential and I really notice the lack of oxygen to my brain if everything is sealed up!  I bet that lamb was tasty too!  Jacksons of old Arley ......

Thanks Pippah

The Lamb Henry melted in the mouth and was perfectly accompanied with sauteed chestnut mushrooms & some steamed brocolli

I'll look into 'Safefil' as it looks ideal - I'd get one immediately but had to fork out £ 483 this morning for a new alternator :(

Have not toured on the continent for over a year now but I did notice that a few sites over there and here are increasingly banning the use of electric grills / bbq etc. Whether for cost reasons or overloading the supply .

I feel the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang are spoiling things for the more reasonable people .

And surely it will just push the site owners into metering the electricity as is done in many parts of Germany and elsewhere.

Making gas the cheaper option

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Have not toured on the continent for over a year now but I did notice that a few sites over there and here are increasingly banning the use of electric grills / bbq etc. Whether for cost reasons or overloading the supply .

I feel the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang are spoiling things for the more reasonable people .

And surely it will just push the site owners into metering the electricity as is done in many parts of Germany and elsewhere.

Making gas the cheaper option

We have stayed on very many French campsites, over many years, including last year (probably more than a dozen last year alone), and I can't say our electric hob and oven has ever been commented upon, let alone banned. Nor have I ever seen electric barbecues banned except for reasons of fire risk if they are sited on the ground.  Some sites ban barbecues (of any sort) because of the fire risk - and this can include electric ones.

I think more monitoring of electricity is inevitable because of the 'green issues' surrounding fuel use - but if we go down this road then the same considerations may also take in excessive gas use - as gas is a fossil fuel too!  Whether we use electricity or gas, it's a finite resource, and if we use it we use it, one way or the other, let's face it! 

 

I Feel you are missing the point .

I did not mention the green issue just the position of a campsite owner finding the electricity bill sky rocketing and having to take action .

It is a fact that in Germany most campsites now meter the electricity making gas the far cheaper option . Nothing green about that . We were talking to a campsite owner in the Loire ( site name eludes me at the moment )and I asked the reason for banning electric grills bbq s  and the reply was emphatic.

"They are costing us to much on the electricity bill"

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Have not toured on the continent for over a year now but I did notice that a few sites over there and here are increasingly banning the use of electric grills / bbq etc. Whether for cost reasons or overloading the supply .

I feel the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang are spoiling things for the more reasonable people .

And surely it will just push the site owners into metering the electricity as is done in many parts of Germany and elsewhere.

Making gas the cheaper option

If I am guilty of being one of the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang (who) are spoiling things for the more reasonable people and I use electricity to cook with then if the supply is metered I will pay a lot more than those who use only a little electricity and prefer to use gas. How is this spoiling things for the rest?  If you don't use it you won't pay for it.

 

Have not toured on the continent for over a year now but I did notice that a few sites over there and here are increasingly banning the use of electric grills / bbq etc. Whether for cost reasons or overloading the supply .

I feel the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang are spoiling things for the more reasonable people .

And surely it will just push the site owners into metering the electricity as is done in many parts of Germany and elsewhere.

Making gas the cheaper option

If I am guilty of being one of the "I paid for it so I am going to use as much as I can " gang (who) are spoiling things for the more reasonable people and I use electricity to cook with then if the supply is metered I will pay a lot more than those who use only a little electricity and prefer to use gas. How is this spoiling things for the rest?  If you don't use it you won't pay for it.

 

Write your comments here...If a campsite owner decides they have to take action as the electricity bill is becoming to expensive and decide to go down the route of metering or just push the price up  then we all have to pay more because of the few who are taking advantage.