Saving gas

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. 

How is using service that has been provided and charged for taking advantage?

Write your comments here...so you are happy for other people to subsidise your over use of electricity, because that is what it would amount to

If the use is reasonable and an electric hotplate seems to be that I see no problem. What I object to is blatant wastage.

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. 

How is using service that has been provided and charged for taking advantage?

Write your comments here...so you are happy for other people to subsidise your over use of electricity, because that is what it would amount to

I really find statements like that very depressing - you must have such a low opinion of fellow caravanners if you think they might be so profligate that you end up subsidisng them to any great extent.

Look - when you go out for an evening with friends and buy a round of drinks, do you keep a record of what yours and theirs cost so that they can settle up with you at the end of the night if theirs are more expensive - you wouldn't want to be subsidisng their drinking would you?

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Well said Val. I have been on many sites in Europe where electric is metered, with an initial amount included in site fee. I have never been charged excess on the meter reading.

On the subject of water filling , I have never understood the reason for carring the extra weight of a full tank if going to a site with a water suplly.

Look - when you go out for an evening with friends and buy a round of drinks, do you keep a record of what yours and theirs cost so that they can settle up with you at the end of the night if theirs are more expensive - you wouldn't want to be subsidisng their drinking would you? 

When a group of women go out for a meal they always seem to pay for exactly what they have eaten  

Look - when you go out for an evening with friends and buy a round of drinks, do you keep a record of what yours and theirs cost so that they can settle up with you at the end of the night if theirs are more expensive - you wouldn't want to be subsidisng their drinking would you? 

When a group of women go out for a meal they always seem to pay for exactly what they have eaten  

Oh yes, cause some have extras

I really find statements like that very depressing - you must have such a low opinion of fellow caravanners if you think they might be so profligate that you end up subsidisng them to any great extent.

I think that the answer to that moulsy is fear at the thought that others may be getting a little bit more than them.

Quite selfish really, life's too short to enter into petty squabbles, live and let live I say, Not a very relaxing way to have a holiday if you are constantly uptight over other peoples energy use. We go through life with a smile on our faces and are happy, not a scowl and the miserable outlook that comes with 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. 

How is using service that has been provided and charged for taking advantage?

Write your comments here...so you are happy for other people to subsidise your over use of electricity, because that is what it would amount to

I really find statements like that very depressing - you must have such a low opinion of fellow caravanners if you think they might be so profligate that you end up subsidisng them to any great extent.

Look - when you go out for an evening with friends and buy a round of drinks, do you keep a record of what yours and theirs cost so that they can settle up with you at the end of the night if theirs are more expensive - you wouldn't want to be subsidisng their drinking would you?

its interesting that, when suggesting a non-ehu option that relied on members 'trust', there were squeals that some would cheat or hook up into someone elses bollard.....

are these the same members, no doubt, that feel their use of an 'inclusive' system is beyond reproach....?

members are either good eggs (and we shouldnt lambast anyone, whatever process they are asked to use) or theyre a rotten bunch that fiddle everything, given the chance....

i expect there is a bit of both.....some will definitely overuse the current system, some would abuse any 'trust' system....

but its no good throwing our hands up in the air, we have to accept our position and move on.....either system could be a little 'fairer' if they were managed better.....but that takes effort.

Forgot to mention, I have blown site fuses whilst cooking. In Germany most fuse boxes are locked, so you have to call the warden. After keeping me waiting for a long time, the muttered comment was " you British with your water heaters". So I wasn't the first and proably not the last.

Forgot to mention, I have blown site fuses whilst cooking. In Germany most fuse boxes are locked, so you have to call the warden. After keeping me waiting for a long time, the muttered comment was " you British with your water heaters". So I wasn't the first and proably not the last.

Well we avoid that by never using our water heater, and always washing up and showering in the site 'ablutions' block using water supplied and heated by the site!  This saves over-useage of 'our' paid for electricity.  Are we taking advantage, do you think?