End Import Parity Pricing For LPG

[Robe]

LPG vehicles have cleaner emissions than petrol ones.

The Government has been providing subsidies for people to convert to LPG.

The pump price for LPG is inflated by Import Parity Pricing.

The recent huge price rises have made LPG a far less attractive alternative to petrol.

Time for the Government to remove Import Parity Pricing from LPG.

[Kryton]

good luck with that one.
LPG parity pricing has been on the table for 8 or so years.

[joolz]

The Gov is broke and needs every tax $ they can get. So again good luck...

[saam]

Somehow if a car can run on water, the powers at be would never allow it as the government would not be able to tax water as much as they can with

LPG, diesel, petrol, natural gas, batteries etc....

Yes, good luck

[Mickxr8]

Originally Posted by davway

good luck with that one.
LPG parity pricing has been on the table for 8 or so years.

Exactly , 2012 was never gonna be a good year for gas users

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Robe

LPG vehicles have cleaner emissions than petrol ones.

The Government has been providing subsidies for people to convert to LPG.

The pump price for LPG is inflated by Import Parity Pricing.

The recent huge price rises have made LPG a far less attractive alternative to petrol.

Time for the Government to remove Import Parity Pricing from LPG.

That would be logical, especially for a government which is trying to be an "example to the world".

Unfortunately this is not about logic or good ideas. It's about money. When money gets involved, all logic goes out window, just like K Rudd.

[mik]

yes one would think if our Glorius leaders where serious about less pollution and and climate change they would be making the stuff as cheap as possible, and also enlarging incentives for solar not taking them away,
but we know the real answer to those questions don`t we.

[MAD]

We'll get LPG import parity when we get import car price parity. (aka. never)

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by joolz

The Gov is broke and needs every tax $ they can get. So again good luck...

^^^^ This.

Government will do anything to get into surplus to try to save their hides, they will not cut anything that provides revenue.

[falconnut]

Well we wouldnt want to end up like USA or Greece now would we?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by falconnut

Well we wouldnt want to end up like USA or Greece now would we?

We are not within a bulls roar of their debt levels. Ours are miniscule compared to theirs. The Yanks will never ever be able to pay their debt back.

[XP6]

I'll be removing the gas system on me ute its just excess weight now...

[falconnut]

Glad i never jumped on the LPG bandwagon, no savings to be had now :(

[LightningStrike]

I'm not happy with the shift in pricing but I won't be pulling out my injected fas out of my territory as long as the gap in pricing is greater than 20%. Its ******** that we are getting gouged, but what can we do?

[Mickxr8]

Vote with your cheap chinese made pencils next fed election , sadly the "none of the above" aint there yet. best stop here

[BHDOGS]

wow gas has gone up what a big news shock its almost like using it more has increased demand and where being screwed the next big news story will be electricity prices rise when every has an electric cars.

[TMC]

Hydrogen is the answer (I've seen the odd hydrogen bus around Perth).

Now all we need is someone to make a solar powered hydrogen producing machine which takes water from the ocean and makes Hydrogen, then compresses it into a tank. (I hope you're reading this oil companies. Be scared - real scared) That will mean that anyone can make their own fuel thanks to the sun, just like plants and photosynthesis. Try and tax that Gummit.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by falconnut

Well we wouldnt want to end up like USA or Greece now would we?

If we were Greece, would they dare put the price up. Those Greeks get real angry and burn things, like Government buildings and banks and insurance companies.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by TMC

Hydrogen is the answer (I've seen the odd hydrogen bus around Perth).

Now all we need is someone to make a solar powered hydrogen producing machine which takes water from the ocean and makes Hydrogen, then compresses it into a tank. (I hope you're reading this oil companies. Be scared - real scared) That will mean that anyone can make their own fuel thanks to the sun, just like plants and photosynthesis. Try and tax that Gummit.

Where would you put a hydrogen tank in a car and what sort of range could you achieve?

[PoweredByCNG]

Originally Posted by TMC

...(I've seen the odd hydrogen bus around Perth).

There were three in service from 2004 to 2007. All have been withdrawn with two scrapped (razor blades at a supermarket near you) and one at the Bus Preservation Society of WA's Whiteman Park base (which I belong to).

[jpd80]

A lot of people look at the often quoted West Texas index for crude and wonder why fuel and gas prices are much higher,
the reason os that our prices are set by the Asian TAPIS index set by OPEC which charges about 30% more for its products
on the open market. Most of our Crude goes to Asia and a different grade/type comes here to be used in our refineries.

At the well head, LPG is only about 3% of the content of narural gas so it's cost and price in the comunity is completely
different to the cost of the vast amounts of Natural gas sold off to Asia and once it all gone, we'll have nothing to sell them.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by PoweredByCNG

There were three in service from 2004 to 2007. All have been withdrawn with two scrapped (razor blades at a supermarket near you) and one at the Bus Preservation Society of WA's Whiteman Park base (which I belong to).

Any idea why they got rid of them. Seems a big waste to run a few for 3 years and junk them. Oil company pressure?????

I remember seeing them blowing steam out the exhaust. They are a zero emissions vehicle.

[jpd80]

Compressed natural gas is next best thing to Hydrogen, it has only one carbon atom to four Hydrogen atoms.
Brisbane City council is using / switching to 500 CNG busses. Running costs and Carbon reduction would be impressive.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by TMC

Hydrogen is the answer (I've seen the odd hydrogen bus around Perth).

Now all we need is someone to make a solar powered hydrogen producing machine which takes water from the ocean and makes Hydrogen, then compresses it into a tank. (I hope you're reading this oil companies. Be scared - real scared) That will mean that anyone can make their own fuel thanks to the sun, just like plants and photosynthesis. Try and tax that Gummit.

Anyone seen TMC lately? I seen some black helicopters fly over his place and I haven't heard from him since.

[xisled]

The Gov had this planned all along. Give the rebate and increase the price of LPG. I have said this since the rebate was available. The gov have to get the money back some how.

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by xisled

The Gov had this planned all along. Give the rebate and increase the price of LPG. I have said this since the rebate was available. The gov have to get the money back some how.

The government doesn't control the price of LPG, oil companies do.
Do you think they won't react to thousands ov buyers switching to LPG to save money?

[Dr Smith]

Originally Posted by jpd80

A lot of people look at the often quoted West Texas index for crude and wonder why fuel and gas prices are much higher,
the reason os that our prices are set by the Asian TAPIS index set by OPEC which charges about 30% more for its products
on the open market. Most of our Crude goes to Asia and a different grade/type comes here to be used in our refineries.

At the well head, LPG is only about 3% of the content of narural gas so it's cost and price in the comunity is completely
different to the cost of the vast amounts of Natural gas sold off to Asia and once it all gone, we'll have nothing to sell them.

I think you'll find with respect to automotive LPG our lpg prices are based on Saudi Arabian contract price (Saudi CP) for propane and butance which has jumped dramatically recently. There is no parity for lpg with asian countries.

I realise you were referring to oil however the following explains what determines our automotive fuel prices where we fill up.

This ACCC article explains LPG pricing.
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/item....tive%20LPG.pdf

Petrol:
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/item....d%20petrol.pdf

Diesel:
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/item....f%20diesel.pdf

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by Dr Smith

I think you'll find with respect to automotive LPG our lpg prices are based on Saudi Arabian contract price (Saudi CP) for propane and butance which has jumped dramatically recently. There is no parity for lpg with asian countries.

OK, thanks for the clarification. We both agree that the pricing is set by OPEC cartel.

[Kevaclone]

Originally Posted by jpd80

Compressed natural gas is next best thing to Hydrogen, it has only one carbon atom to four Hydrogen atoms.
Brisbane City council is using / switching to 500 CNG busses. Running costs and Carbon reduction would be impressive.

Back in the 90s when Company that installed a CNG refueling facility they had to allow access and sales to the public. So if you converted your vehicle you could refuel at the Brisbane Council Bus Depot at Carina as well as the Buranda Cab Depot(may have been more but I don't know where)

There were a few Taxis, buses and I think Finemore TPT had a few CNG vehicles running about. But the problem was the size of the vehicle's storage tanks, CNG needs about twice the tank capacity as LPG because it's still a gas and not liquefied.

BCC canned the idea after a few years and went back to diesel buses and the Cabs back to LPG. It was only a couple of years ago the BCC revisited the CNG idea with their Scania buses.

My diesel Landcruiser wagon would be great on CNG and there is a huge space underneath when the diesel tanks and spare tyre are removed and at 2.7 tonne the % of extra weight of the tanks is much less than that a normal car. Just the lack of available refueling places would make it impractical

[Belial]

Well since the Gov added a bonus to convert to gas, the Gas converters put their price up to match.
When the Gov added a "First home owners grant" the builders put up their prices to match.

It's not always the Governments fault..... just 90+% of the time!