Campgrounds Are Also Paying For Fuel Increases

Above, The Beast at the Los Banos KOA in Northern California. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Inflation is hitting everyone everywhere. Utilities, food, fuel and other necessities are all being hit by inflation. That also includes campgrounds.

RV Travel has posted an opinion piece on how inflated fuel costs are hitting campgrounds.  

They begin it with:

Setting rates is going to be a tricky business for campground owners this summer.

I was talking last week with a campground owner who said he’d been contacted by more than one RVer this month who wanted to know if the owner would give them a “special lower rate” because of the increased cost of fuel.

No doubt the RVer’s cost of getting from home to the campground has gone up. Those eight-mile-a-gallon rigs make budgeting for fuel increases tricky. But expecting park owners to help soften the blow seems a bit … unseemly.

What you pay at the pump is just the tip of the spear when it comes to the true costs of fuel increases. Businesses – including campgrounds – are being hit from every direction with increased cost pressures, too.

When fuel prices rise, not only does the campground owner pay more to gas up his own vehicles (including lawnmowers, weed whackers and golf carts), they also pay more for everything they have delivered. When gas goes up, so do the costs of ice, groceries, propane, machinery, and all the services they may contract.

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