{"id":21731,"date":"2009-12-24T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2016-09-12T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:48:12","slug":"propane-sticker-shock-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/propane-sticker-shock-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Propane Sticker Shock, Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my 30lb tank filled this morning and the cost almost a full dollar per pound. It wasn&#8217;t quite <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=2507\">as bad as in Dawson<\/a>, where I paid $40 to fill the tank, but it was still a full ten cents more than in Whitehorse! I guess living on an island is more expensive than living near the end of the world?<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be only one place within a reasonable distance of Campbell River city limits to get propane; the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=esso,+campbell+river,+bc&amp;sll=49.891235,-97.15369&amp;sspn=47.374354,135.439453&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=esso,&amp;hnear=Campbell+River,+BC&amp;ll=49.953608,-125.202191&amp;spn=0.011473,0.033066&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=B\">Ocean Grove Esso station<\/a> at the corner of South Island Highway and Colorado. It&#8217;s easy to get to even if it is a 20km round trip drive, so I doubt I&#8217;ll be taking Miranda out for an onboard tank fill. The 30lber will last a long time so long as I&#8217;m not heating with it, so it&#8217;s not worth the hassle of trying to get myself out and back into this spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my 30lb tank filled this morning and the cost almost a full dollar per pound. It wasn&#8217;t quite as bad as in Dawson, where I paid $40 to fill the tank, but it was still a full ten cents more than in Whitehorse! I guess living on an island is more expensive than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}