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Australia Urged to Convert vehicles to run on lpg

Australians are being urged to convert their vehicles to run on lpg. Dr Laurie Sparke, former GM Holden engineer and safety campaigner, wants Australians to convert their cars and trucks to lpg and natural gas to avert what otherwise would be a catastrophe for the country, he says – a shortfall of transport fuels.

Dr Sparke told a Society of Automotive Engineers conference that Australia was facing a supply crisis. Abare, the Australian government’s economic research agency, has forecast a 90 per cent probability of a major and immediate shortfall of oil. The International Energy Agency Oil has predicted that supplies are likely to become tight within five years, and oil production in most of the nations supplying Australia is falling.

Australia imports more than half its transport fuels, and has used over 26 billion litres of diesel in road transport in the past year.

Dr Sparke said Australia had vast reserves of gas that were adequate to fuel its transport system for the next century and beyond. Most importantly, gas could replace the shortfall of oil in the near future, helping to avert what otherwise would be a catastrophe.

Picture: Alan Beale, managing director of Elgas (Australia)

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