Cost of LPG fuel?

[Jo Po]

Looking today when I was filling the car and noticed that LPG hasn't went up THAT much?
Thinking of buying something nicer in the new year that would most likely benefit from an LPG conversion at some point. Which got me thinking, When will the government decide times up for LPG and put the price through the roof for that too.

Dont want to spend just over £2k converting then find it paying for itself years later.

Any ideas or thoughts?

[MJK 24]

LPG has gone up a huge amount this year.

It was 49p around my way and now it's heading for 70p.

[cahami]

When i started using it circa 6/7 years ago it was 39p per ltr. Now see it as high as 79p , it seems to me we are all screwed no mater how we try ???
WE need to make a positive stand against the cost of fuell in this country

[Jo Po]

Theres a place near where i live, less than a mile, That convert cars to LPG and their LPG is 52ppl.

Local ASDA is 58ppl.

As long as it stays at half the cost of unleaded then its worth while.

[AlpineA610]

I've been running on LPG for a couple of years now but the rise in the past month has been a joke. I filled it up in November and it cost £28. Yesterday, it cost £38 (now gone up to 72.9 ppl). As it uses more fuel than petrol, the saving is now minimal. Luckily for me, the conversion has paid for itself a couple of times over but I would be reluctant to get a car changed now.

[entwisi]

when I started I could get LPG for 30p/litre, its quite silly how much it costs now as its still a waste product that they burn off at source because there is no where to store it all that comes out. I dont even believe its the gov taxing it as they are controlled by EU regs.

I'm in a derv for the first time in nearly 10 years and the running costs are not much different than when I was on LPG....

[jamoor]

I still remember when it used to cost 30ppl from Morrisons

[Jem0911]

jamoor said:

I still remember when it used to cost 30ppl from Morrisons

Still Massive fluctuations between my local lot.

The brainy bunch at BP have two sites on the A14, one eastbound, one westbound at Kettering where there is a five pence difference one side to the other?

I hope some one doesn't work out when its not cheaper to have LPG, I love the V8.

[B19GRR]

Jo Po said:

Any ideas or thoughts?

Buy something already converted! Difficult I know though.

I filled up today at 69.9 - BP at Harlow J7 M11, Shell opposite is 73.9 - genius!

That works out at 13.05 p/mile, which is equivalent to something doing 44mpg at a fuel cost of 126.9. I'm sure I could run a 530d and get that sort of figure on longer runs but not combined with town crawling. So I'm happy to stick with my 528 slushomatic!

My conversion has paid for itself now which is handy as I've moved and I'm now doing half the miles I was, which is also nice!!

Cheers,
Rob

[JCW]

entwisi said:

when I started I could get LPG for 30p/litre, its quite silly how much it costs now as its still a waste product that they burn off at source because there is no where to store it all that comes out. I dont even believe its the gov taxing it as they are controlled by EU regs.

I'm in a derv for the first time in nearly 10 years and the running costs are not much different than when I was on LPG....

Its not a 'waste product' and there is plenty of storage in the UK, in excess of 500,000 tonnes which equates to over half the UK consumption. As a commodity, like other fuels, it has risen dramatically this year peaking this month at over £600 per tonne and a fair chunk of the price is down to HMG maintaining the petrol/LPG price differential via the fuel escalator. Next month duty increases to 16.75ppl plus and increase in VAT - nothing to do with the EU.