Anyone got an LPG car?

[jonathane1976]

Anyone own or driven an LPG car or van?

I used to drive LPG double decker buses.

I'm thinking of getting an LPG car, any ideas?

[kenpem]

I was driven around Italy in a "dual-fuel" Zafira.

It seemed sensible enough - the LPG fill costs about half the price of unleaded, and gets you about 80% of the distance, so the financial gains are obvious, provided you do enough mileage to get back the outlay.

The bigger advantage to me, though, would be the extended range - two fuel tanks are certainly better than one!

[thehoneyant]

Anyone own or driven an LPG car or van?

I used to drive LPG double decker buses.

I'm thinking of getting an LPG car, any ideas?

LOL convert, It's cheaper. To do mine, rather than buy a new one. Total Price (Including VAT) £1938.75

http://www.greenfuel.org.uk/

[kenpem]

LOL convert, It's cheaper. To do mine, rather than buy a new one. Total Price (Including VAT) £1938.75

http://www.greenfuel.org.uk/

Did you apply for a gov't grant to help ease the pain?

[sludgeguts]

I wanted to go leccy with my new car (civic) but the Honda garage wanted £5k on top of the usual price AND the cheeky boogers get to keep your old engine

Thought about getting gassed up but the nearest garage to me is 20 - odd miles away, over half-hour's drive, and in places I never ever drive.
Wouldn't be so bad if you could get an adaptor & hose for mains gas to plug in at home.

I'm now biding my time 'till the world's oil supply runs dry (last estimate I saw was about 50 years at current useage, prolly less since the loonies keep blowing up oil wells!) then just watch all the alternative fuelled vehicles suddenly appear in garages.

[thehoneyant]

Did you apply for a gov't grant to help ease the pain?

Nope, aint found the site for that deduction yet, lol but it will bring the price down.

sludgeguts the world's oil supply runs dry (last estimate I saw was about 50 years at current useage

I will be pushing up dasies then **cough cough**

[sludgeguts]

Wonder if old Bayliss'll come out with a wind up car (like he has with radios, torches & mobile phone rechargers)

[sludgeguts]

Right, perhaps someone in the know will be able to tell me.

Nuclear Fuel. Is disposed when it is considered 'spent'.
My definition of 'spent' is exhausted, used up etc
So why is the 'spent' fuel buried in concrete etc deep underground or wherever???
If it has to be treated this way, it cannot be 'spent'
Could it be used to power cars?
If not cars, how about buses, lorries, trains???

If the radiation from these rods can be measured, is there not a way of utilising this energy other than burying it?

[kenpem]

Don't know enough about how nuclear stuff works to comment on that lot...

But surely LPG will suffer the same fate as oil? And possibly even sooner?

As for electric cars..... what is the electricity generated from in the first place? Yep, fossil fuels again. So what's the answer? Bicycles?

[sludgeguts]

We had a piece in the local paper about a chap who installed solar panels on his roof (c£12k). He pays nowt for his leccy & even supplies his excess to the leccy board (not sure if they pay him), so it would be possible to power your own car - but the Govt wouldn't want you doing that would they? look at the revenue they'd lose, in the same way as they fine the mobile 'chippys'

I think I read somewhere that Tesco uses its old cooking oil to power some of its fleet.
I also read that we can produce more than enough fuel oil from our crops.