In Colac, Victoria, Australia. We pay $1.33 a litre, Lpg 72 cents a litre 43 percent of these fuel prices goes to fed's govement hand, 18 percent goes to local state gov hand, 1 percent goes to service stations & and the rest goes to the (Oil) companys who is laughing all the way to the bank with smile on its face and who;s crying fowl, we are and doing nothing fix the problem. Sounds like when leaded fuel was killing us but oil companys blocked anything being done to fix the problem then & 80 years later when our children being poisened, something was done then. Sadly Bruns

Hydrogen power looks sweet. Endless supply to run off, zero polution and any vehicle can be modified to suit running it.

BMW have a system fully developed, it is expensive at the moment like all new technology, but will be achievable within the next ten years.

I'm under the impression that the usage is more like 20% bacause it has about 20% less energy pre unit than gasoline. I suppose if you just want to be a lead foot then you'll use 40% more to get back to the same power output

so when gasoline is more than 40% more expensive than propane it becomes cost effective. If there ever is hydrogen or methane or whatever then you probably won't need to change much to use that fuel.

Since the there may be less taxes, you could get a 10 - 20% discount off the top, so that means gasoline only needs to be 1/4 more. TAX FREE IN AU till 2011!

I was looking and for example in the UK:
unleaded 95: 87.2 / l
diesel : 91.1 / l
super : 89.5 / l
LPG: : 34.0 / l

95 octane is 2.56 times more than LPG. this is also because LPG doesn't have 66 - 71% in taxes added to it.
source: http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/

A LPG kit in the uk costs about 350 for a datsun.

all the parts for an LPG kit don't weigh 50 lbs. ( when tank is empty )

something to consider...

Sure lpg is about half the price....but I've heard you use nearly twice as much of it. Is this true?

back in the 70's here when we had the 'gas shortage' which was really a distribution problem, more than anything, my parents just bought avgas since it was no more expensive and no lines to get it.

My wifes 2tons of steel. And this is a small SUV/truck/glorified station wagon.

matbighat: where in norway was u?

norway is rich becaus of oil but we do not haw much monny compared to US or other big countrys but we are only 4 million duds so for us it is a big deal :)

Venezuela is so cheap because they produce their own oil and struggle to export it. The middle east has almost total control of oil exportation but actually have a very minor share of the worlds oil resources.

The Chechnyan rebels in Russia begun terrorist attacks to protect their oil rich land being completely taken over by the Russian Govt. Australia too is oil rich, but our oil is only good for car fuel and nothing else, so isn't desirable overseas.

The problem is everyone on Earth knows oil is a neccessity, so we all try and screw one another around with it to make big bucks. Unfortunately there is enough oil left to last a thousand years, so things aren't going to change in our time.

I wonder what the price of avgas is in Melbourne? Id rather run 13.7 to 1 for the same price of premium pump fuel.
Also anyone know the Octane rating of the spray can degreaser at Supa cheap auto?
Id rather run that stuff as I can get it for a dollar a litre

The solution would be electric with lightweight batteries as designed in Tokyo university 8 years ago (special alloy plate batteries hold 100 times more charge than lead due to its greater surface area)
But yes CNG is probably the way to go since theres so much of the stuff.

well today in penrith its up to 125.9 for regular unleaded