LPG

Erm, why?

You're gonna have to give a little more info..........

Has Brown whapped the tax up?

Not seen the pre-Budget report?

Slack-jaw Brown strikes again. There's a new fashion in fuel and LPG is so last year.

Nope. But I have now. Apologies if the wrapping goes awry:

From the speech:

The duty on road fuel gases has not increased since Budget 2001, in line with the Government?s commitment to freeze these duties until 2004 at the earliest. Budget 2003 announced a consultation on how best to ensure that future support for road fuel gases continues to reflect environmental and other policy objectives. Following this extensive consultation, the Government has decided that the environmental benefits offered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) no longer justify the level of duty differential it currently receives, while the long period of high duty support has allowed the necessary infrastructure to be developed. The Government will gradually increase the duty rate for LPG over the next three years, setting duty differentials on a path towards a level commensurate with the fuel?s environmental benefits. Consistent with the Government?s commitment to give three-year certainty on duty differentials for alternative fuels, future differentials for the next three years will be announced in Budget 2004.

Well to be fair, I think most car followers were expecting this sooner or later. Except perhaps Mr. Keating, but I digress. The absence of duty on LPG was conspicuous by its absence, and of course just as soon as it becomes popular enough to rake in some decent coin, the duty will be increased.

The shullbit announced is just like the additional levy on diesel, "they're getting something for nothing relative to unleaded, so we'll rape them for it."

Of course, everybody should have been expecting it, too, since if something looks too good to be true, then it is! :(

Good job nobody has reinvented the car that runs on tap water.....

they have :)

Expecting what? I don't seem to have the rest of the thread..

Me neither and I was thinking of having mine converted

The last time I said they were going to do this (in cars.misc) it was pretty much univerally derided by the resident 'experts' as something that was not going to happen for years and years.

Do what?

Increase the tax on LPG to reflect the greater damage it now does to the environment [sic].

Yes, hence the attack at Mr. Keating, to derided the mere concept that duty would ever be increased on LPG as sheer Dervy lunacy.

It's not so long ago that Oliver Keating was wondering why the take-up of LPG was so low. Now we know - people aren't stupid.

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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." (WilliamPitt, 1783)

DervMan ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Eh? Wot "greater damage"? I think they may have mis-spelt "lost revenue"...

were

revenue"...

Hence it was annotated "[sic]" - it's all a lie! It's no dirtier than it was last week . . .

Must have missed that, my comments were quite a while ago (less than a year tho).

Mine too!

Over two years ago, when somebody said, "why not get a LPG Ka?" and I said something along the lines of, "we'd never make the cost up between now and when LPG duty is increased."