Because I do believe we can use LPG to fill in before we find another fuel or motor I need to add more info.
My work car has a 100 liter fuel tank factory fitted it takes not much more than 75 liters to fill.
LPG seems to retain about 20% in the tank most times.
Because it is one fuel room has been taken up in the boot so a smaller spare is used.
Surely small cars could have smaller fuel tanks?
In truth we will run out of oil we do have balance of trade problems and like it or not we need our cars still in rural Australia.
Given all that and the far better outcomes for the environment why not LPG?

Belly I also wonder why governments have not put in place programs to encourage manufacture to produce more gas powered cars. Australia is self-sufficient in LNG and LPG but exports vast quantities to countries like China and Taiwan (and others).

Why are we then so dependent on oil when we have gas?

I would rather pay the current excise and GST on petrol if it would be spent on improving public transport, renewables and rail with the aim or reducing car dependency.

Even if mining companies were to discover new sources of oil, experts argue that with highly populated countries like China and India becoming more developed that there will be (in the greater millions) more cars on the road within the next 20 years. The new very cheap 'Nano' car being manufactured in India is set to increase the number of road users to 1.1billion and as the following article states, marketers are targetting the current motorcylce users on affordability.

See: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/11/2136595.htm

See link here about Australian oil and gas supplies:

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/resources_sector.html

Well put Pelican and the questions remain.
Answers may never come but the question will hang in the air forever why?
The thread is about party politics and its impact on oil prices truly given the truck blockades in England and America proposed for here do we need more evidence it is world wide?
But apart from Brazil can any one find a non oil producing country that is trying to address the issue?
LPG at the current tax rates pegged for ten years would let us breath and just maybe work.

Arjay

Why do you keep saying things like "Mr Rudd has taken the subsidy off gas conversions" when he has not?

I don't believe you are deliberately trying to misinform people, but mate ... you do seem to get your facts haywire sometimes.

In a previous post I said just wait for the budget papers to be released, then we will know for sure. Well, they have been released and the conversion to LPG subsidy has been extended.

Btw, I like your thread here;

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1828

I hope it picks up again.