What's the Govt stance on LPG?

[Uncle John]

Will the price per litre stay roughly the same or will the robbing barstewards increase the duty?

If anyone has any news on which way it may go please tell.

Cheers.

[Apache]

it's in stasis at the moment, not enough people will buy it because they fear it'll get taxed as soon as they convert their car and the govt aren't taxing it yet because not enough people are using it

[HowMuchLonger]

3yr EU price limit. i.e. there needs to be 3years notice before the taxation levels can rise.

Mods, a sticky would be helpfull on LPG facts and fiction.

[WOO5IE]

If they do develope the water powered car as previously reported they will tax H2O until they reach the same level as petrol. They just cant help themselves

So which way do you think LPG will go

When Electric cars take off it will be the same only they will have too use a different excuse other than Green!!

Thats why they want to use a pay as you go tax so it wont matter what fuel you use

just tax,tax,tax the miles

[Gonewest]

[quote=HowMuchLonger]3yr EU price limit. i.e. there needs to be 3years notice before the taxation levels can rise./quote]

I thought that this time limit was already up ?

[Plotloss]

Price will stay roughly the same until 2011 at least.

[thunderbelmont]

It's the duty that's supposed to remain constant.
In fact, the percentage "discount" that the EU recommends is more than the UK government gives it, which is why people haven't embraced LPG that much as a road fuel.

Look at it this way, if they encourage more people to use it, they will lose duty, which means that they will have to tax something else to pay for more support groups for some fringe minority freak organisation.
Or more jollys around the world for Golden Brown so he can tell these Johnny Foreigners to pump more oil so he can save his own worthless skin.

[herewego]

This government have encouraged people to use LPG with grants for conversion as well as reduced duty. Unfortunately the people who went for the conversion were those with the most to gain, i.e. the gas guzzlers which meant that the government were actually inadvertently encouraging people to buy the most fuel consumptive cars. I assume this is why the government is no longer so keen. In my opinion they should have said at the outset that only lower band cars were eligible.

[roosevelt]

Are Gov. grants still available for conversion??

[adeelster]

I really hope that LPG prices remain the same relative to petrol i.e. half the price. I converted my Lexus GS about 6 months ago and it has been a revelation, a big smooth V6 saloon with the fuel consumption of a Micra.

I was a cynic beforehand but there really don't seem to be any drawbacks, other than the awkward nature of the fuel fillers (it is a pain in the backside compared to petrol but you get used to it). Now I'm just thinking why didn't I go for a BMW 540 V8 instead?!! I just feel this is too good to be true and suddenly the prices will go shooting up.

Incidentally anyone checked out the latest EVO? They tested an LPD'd Renault Megane 225 and said it was fantastic. If these kind of cars can be converted, why not Porsche Boxsters and 350Zs? Actually I saw a converted 350Z for sale on auto trader...