"Hog" wrote in message
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"Oliver Keating"

The problem is that she is completely missing the bigger picture.

The fact is that if all of these manufacturers have invested in LPG,
then
it
would be totally unfair to remove to incentives that make the LPG
market.

Additionally, she bangs on about carbon-based tax, which is all very
well
but CO2 isn't everything, and even then, LPG should be cheaper than
diesel
because for every litre of LPG burnt, it produces about 33% less CO2
than
each litre of diesel.

I think shes a complete idiot. If the Government decides to force an
exit
of
the LPG market it won't be pretty, especially for all of those who have
invested in it, from private individuals to multinational companies like
GM.
They will be royally ****ed off, and why not? The Govt can't just decide
to
change the goalposts.

If something drastic does happen to LPG then no one will ever trust the
Govt. again.

It also completely misses the most important point of all. Distribution
systems. It has been painful and slow just to get the existing coverage of
LPG availability. It has however been helped by the diverse use of
Propane.
To enable the Hydrogen cycle the government would have to mandate that
every
large filling station in the country make it available by a certain date
(or
somesuch).

The entire country is missing a trick here though. Take for granted that
it
is possible to produce a *very* clean diesel engine. The particulate
exhaust
filter was patented a couple of years ago.

The problem is that clean diesel engines are difficult to build, and
particulate filters hit fuel economy (around 10%) rather like the old cats
did when they were installed.

Consider that biodiesel from Rape
crops is a good fuelstock. Now make a jump to mandating that (by a given
date) all diesel has to be from this source and it may not be imported.
You
would completely re-energise farming in this country and massively improve
the national balance of payments. It is such an obvious and completely
beneficial concept that I can only presume alternative pressure groups
prevent it happening.

I heard that even if the whole country was turned into intensive farming for
Bio-D then we would only have about 9% of our needs.

To be honest though, as an alternative fuel Bio-D does seem to have the
advantage over LPG. One problem seems to be that the outlets that sell
"Bio-D" often do it at only 5%, which I reckon is a bit of a joke. Tax
breaks should only be applied to 100% farm fuelled, and I do think they
should be entiltled to a very stong break.

I am keeping my eye very strongly on the whole Bio-D situation. One think is
that there is a great deal of excess farming capacity in African countries.
Just think of how it would help their economies to be selling us Bio-D fuel!

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