Current LPG prices

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Date Added: Wednesday 24th June 2009

"I agree with Harry Orwell on the Isle of Wight. I was born on the Island but now live in the Midlands. I am currently paying 38p litre for LPG at Hilton Autogas which is probably one of the cheapest in the country. I love coming back to the Island for holidays with the family but hate Vectawarms 72p litre and time waiting to get served. Like you say it is just as cheap to run petrol on the Island. I have used LPG since 2000 and have made savings. It has got more and more difficult though as I remember 30p litre when petrol was 80p litre several years ago. With petrol at 2.5 times dearer than LPG it was a sensible choice, now it is much more difficult with a huge range of prices across the country and often difficulty filling up for much less than 50p/l. The way to save is to keep the car for several years and live near a cheap fill up point. My first car I kept for nine years and 133,000 miles. My second I converted 12 months ago and this time picked a car I could fit a larger tank in. I now have 60 litre capacity and a range of 350 to 370 miles which nearly alsways means I can get there and back to Hilton to fill up at 38p. The only times I can't are holidays to the Isle of Wight and France. For the Island I fill up at Lymington or Portsmouth and then part fill with 200 miles worth there again on my way back, enough to get me back to Hilton. Soon I fear the only cars worth converting will be 5 and 6 litre monsters but then they would struggle to have a tank large enough to cover most journeys to be able to return to a cheap filling point. It is such a shame as Hyundai and other Korean Manufacturers are now making OEM single fuel LPG hybrid models for the Korean Market. LPG is used by the masses in Korea and even many diesel engined buses and trucks are converted to LPG with much government support. They even have their LPG Association website available in English and promote LPG's use very much as a clean fuel due to there smog problems. www.klpg.or.kr/front/english/intro/greeting.html Hyundai has spent a lot of time developing their new Elantra which not only runs on LPG but has it injected into the engine under pressure as a liquid. The systems mostly available here for modern cars are maulti point SGI or older vehicles single point. SGI is sequential gas injection, this liquid turning into a gas before injection in a vapouriser. LPI systems give the advantage of the same MPG per litre as a petrol, assuming the engine is optimized for each fuel. Their Elantra car is also a hybrid as well as running only LPG. Hyundai are now taking orders for it. www.autoevolution.com/news/hyundai-is-taking-orders-for-elantra-lpi-hybrid-the-first-of-its-kind-7785.html Such a shame our government cannot be more proactive than they are in supporting alternative fuels to bridge the gap before we all end up running hydrogen or electric cars or whatever in many years to come."

dave

Date Added: Friday 29th May 2009

"LPG prices like diesel is a government scam. Remember when they wanted everyone to buy diesel and it was less than petrol and then before you can say "MPs expenses" diesel became more expensive. LPG was supposed to be a cheap eco-friendly alternative - but has proved to be only eco-friendly and HMG tries to take the maximum amount of tax and you watch, before you can say "Tax-payer funded second home" they will slam enough tax on LPG to make it parity to petrol in price. "

Phil Thomas

Date Added: Friday 13th March 2009

"Hi I filled up at MMS Gas Power Gailey of the A5 in Staffordshire 10/03/09 great place lpg only 41p ltr drove down to Kent where it was 52p ltr where the owner of station showed me the receipt for last delivery and he only makes 4p a ltr profit shame on the oil company's for ripping us off"

A D Sinpson

Date Added: Friday 6th March 2009

"I agree about a rip off. Here in north east scotland lpg is 55.9p at every station. Price fixing? all supplied by shell. Travelled south to glasgo 2 weeks ago and average price 43p."

allan leighton

Date Added: Thursday 15th January 2009

"when I got my first LPG car just over 18 months ago, LPG was 38.9 ppl, petrol was 89.9ppl, petrol peaked at 112.9 ppl LPG at 56ppl, As of today (14-01-09)petrol is at 32.9ppl , LPG is at 46.9ppl, HMMM someone;s calculator is conveniently broken, wheres my incentive to use LPG and save the planet Mr B"

juscrooky manchester

Date Added: Wednesday 14th January 2009

"Last time I bought LPG it was 72p a litre. That\\\'s what you get if there is no competition, as here on the Isle of Wight. I no longer bother with it because it takes at least an extra 15 mins. to drag someone out of the shop and fill up etc. and petrol works out about the same."

harry Orwell

Date Added: Saturday 10th January 2009

"Hi, I pay 40ppl at Flogas in Birmingham or 43ppl at Listers in Cradley heath - you get a break down on your invoice gas cost 27.xp duty 10.xp vat 5.xp, lets face it nothing good lasts forever and this government will do anything to screw us out of our hard earned - even if gas is \'greener\' than other fuels."

Stu

Date Added: Sunday 4th January 2009

"As of today,4th Jan.09,LPG is 49p/litre in my area,a fall of 3p from it's highest.Petrol,however,has fallen 40p(I'll just say that again-40 PENCE!)or roughly 33%,compared to LPG's 6%. So which thieving scumbags are profiteering from this? The petrol companies or the Exchequer? "

John Anon

Date Added: Thursday 1st January 2009

"In today's Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/31/tesco-oil petrol now down to 82.9p, cheapest I can get LPG is 48.9 in my area. Only 33p a litre in in but I lose some of that because car needs more LPG for same miles. Not worth converting"

mike

Date Added: Sunday 28th December 2008

"I have had a LPG car since 2004. The gap in price between LPG and petrol has become more and more marginal. As the other poster says we have not seen any proper drop in the price of LPG. Even at half the price of unleaded say 85.9 we should be seeing a price of around 42.9 but cheapest I can get it is 48.9 at least a six pence per litre rip-off for the corrupt oil company cartels. Will anything be done, I very much doubt it we are living in rip off Britain "

M Wise

Date Added: Thursday 18th December 2008

"I am so annoyed that having forked out £1300+ for an lpg conversion the price of lpg does not follow petrol prices when lpg is a byproduct of the petrol process. Now rather than taking me one year to make my money back (20k miles per year) it shall take me around 4/5 years as petrol to lpg price ratio is getting less...anyone remember £1.21 for petrol and 55p for lpg???
What is the government playing at not regulating."

Recent LPG convert, Swansea

Date Added: Tuesday 16th December 2008

"As a general observation, before prices increased in the summer LPG was slightly less than half that of petrol. Currently as petrol prices fall LPG does not seem to be falling in the same proportion..."

anon

Date Added: Saturday 13th December 2008

"petrol prices here have dropped a further 2p yet lpg unchanged"

sunny

Date Added: Monday 8th December 2008

"I concur with the average prices listed today (8/12/08) Seems the fuel companies are making the most of the reduced tax on LPG to line their own pockets. Should be down to 45ppl at least by now."

John Henderson

Date Added: Wednesday 3rd December 2008

"hi, here petrol prices used to around 2.4 times as much as lpg, but as petrol went up so did lpg by the same number of pence per litre but as petrol came downn lpg did not at that rate and now petrol is around 89p but lpg is aound 52p, alot smaller margin. yet they want us to use more friendly fuel for the environment but dont help to encourage us. surely it should be made cheaper to help others convert, the way it looks at the moment people are reluctant to convert. and i agree there should be some sort of watch dog to monitor this "

sunny (leicester,uk)

Date Added: Monday 24th November 2008

"Hi not sure if they opperate in your area but Countrywide operate an account/key fob system where you fill from unattended pump and are billed monthly. Currently they charge 44p per ltr. Hope this helps. p.s. I am traveling to Spain in a few weeks any information on LPG filling on route Calais-Almeria?"

Matt

Date Added: Monday 20th October 2008

"This is a joke. Why arn't we seeing a drop in LPG prices even though petrol has dropped over 20p per litre???"

Mike

Date Added: Friday 17th October 2008

"I live in the Stockport. I have found that if you find a gas supiler, you can get it cheaper than at your Petrol Stations.< Cheshire Gas > The price is today.52p a litre."

fonzy1958

Date Added: Sunday 17th August 2008

"There are a few things you need be aware of before splashing out almost 2000 pounds on converting your car to LPG. It does offer great savings, jolly good but it will take an average car (appx. 12000 miles per year @ 35 mpg) almost 3 years before it can actually recover the amount invested to get the car converted to LPG. So unless you are thinking to passing the car onto your next generation, it does not make sense to switch to LPG because you will not be able to recover the cost of installation. Another disadvantage is that there are not many refeuling stations. This is why diesel cars sell much better than LPG because you get economy without losing your boot space. I am not a big fan of diesels and I can live without the big boot but I think cost of LPG installation eliminates any chance of saving a bob or two! "

ronnie

Date Added: Wednesday 9th July 2008

"i am living in malaga spain and drive a grand jeep which was converted 2 years ago to lpg. since moving to spain in january i have not been able to obtain any lpg for my car. however im told that it is now allowed and available in spain"

jeff dobson

Date Added: Tuesday 1st July 2008

"I was considering converting my car to lpg much cheaper and cleaner but since moving to the Isle of Man, the price is now over 70p a litre. Is there no watchdog used to help control prices of alternative fuels, it might be worth considering."

R Owen

Date Added: Thursday 15th May 2008

"having just returnd from spain (LPG 42p to 48p.litre) thro France ( 48p-54p) and U.K.(48p-58p) I was astounded to find it is now 70.9p litre in the Isle of Man,a 40% Hike! It always was 10 to 20% above U.K. because of transportation but 40% is a total rip off.(Its not Total its a B.P.monopoly.)Think yourself lucky in U.K.as its no longer worth the conversion cost here in the Isle of Man. Cant wait to get back to Spain next winter!"

Stan Wood