14 Aug 08
Budget is bad news for LPG
It's not all rosy. You'll need to keep track of where Britain's 1,300 LPG stations lurk if you're straying far, and not all are on the beaten track. Scotland does badly for coverage, as does Wiltshire, Bedfordshire and West Sussex. You'll do much better in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Devon, Somerset, Norfolk and North Yorks.
Worse, the Government has pretty much fallen out of love with what's after all still a fossil fuel; they've promised to gradually narrow the duty gap by adding an extra 1p per litre every budget increase. And you still can't use the Channel Tunnel.
The LPG Association reckons there are around 140,000 LPG-converted vehicles running around the country right now, their owners no doubt smugly pointing to the absence of the £1 in front of the pence-only-per-litre forecourt price.
Very tempting then, as one second-hand ad for a high-performance LPG Mitsubishi we saw tried to capitalise on: 'For sale: the cheapest Evo to run... probably ever.'
