Author Topic: 35 reasons to not vote for Gore (Read 1702 times)

Dowding · « **Reply #45 on:** October 02, 2000, 07:58:00 AM »

No - there is no demand because of the cost of conversion. This would decrease if their was more demand.

Catch-22

Toad · « **Reply #46 on:** October 02, 2000, 08:08:00 AM »

Now, I'm really confused.

Businesses and consumers would save so much after conversion to LP that the conversion costs would be covered by "much, much cheaper fuel costs", right?

However, "there is no demand because of the cost of conversion"?

Two possibilites...or maybe three...occur to me:

1. The costs of conversion will not be covered by a decrease in fuel costs, thus no demand. This seems to be the case in the US where many "public utility" vehicles have been converted to LP but the companies admit they aren't saving money (in fact possibly losing money), just running cleaner. Thus would indicate it is NOT a "cost effective alternative to the IC engine" as yet.

2. The LP engine producing companies are not very good at marketing their products. Always a possibility but if they truly had a good, well-documented case this one seems an "easy sell". The "better mousetrap" theory and all that.

3. The evil business men of the global energy/automobile industrial complex dirty tricks squad has managed to hide the truth from free-thinking scientists around the world once again.

Eagler · « **Reply #47 on:** October 03, 2000, 08:24:00 AM »

Reason 36 .....................

RU-486

Dowding · « **Reply #48 on:** October 04, 2000, 07:09:00 PM »

The reason is simple -

People tend not to like spending large amounts of money - even though they could save money gradually in the long run.

It follows that people are unwilling to spend £3000 on LPG conversion, even though it would pay for itself in a couple of years (maximum).

Also - the oil companies are unwilling to place LPG service points in their fill-up stations.

Consequently, people don't like the idea of running out of fuel with no where to fill up, and the oil companies don't like the idea of providing a service that nobody will use.

Catch-22, yet again.

Toad · « **Reply #49 on:** October 04, 2000, 09:18:00 PM »

Ah!

So that's why Japan, with no oil of her own, avoids the conversion. Despite the fact that her industry is more closely aligned with her government than any other industrialized nation.

That's probably why Japanese scientists are also ignoring all those many forms of new, alternative technolgy that are sitting rusting on the shelf.

Dowding · « **Reply #50 on:** October 05, 2000, 06:02:00 AM »

Japan has no oil of her own, and also no LPG of her own. Whereas Britain has the North Sea oil fields. Crucially, taxation of LPG is less than petrol, on top of the difference in the base price of each fuel.

Japanese scientists aren't ignoring alternatives to fossil fuels; it gets most of it's electricity from nuclear power, and is heavily involved with the photoelectric industry.

Besides, I was talking about the situation in the UK, and specifically why people won't convert.