Refillable Gas Systems

ISTR that BP are pulling out of the LPG market. I'll try and check with my daughter who is a business analyst with them, or was until last week.

for anyone interested, an overview of refillable gas tanks/bottle options/costs is in this month's MMM magazine.

I was under the impression that BP had got rid of all their LPG rigs?? Perhaps a few have retained theirs. As I am late to the Party, Happy New Year all you Non EHUers!!  Spent all of Christmas and New year suffering from ‘Aussie Flu’ - can’t wait for those long summer days!😂😂 

I think they still have a few on Motorways probably due to a contractual obligation but the rest have gone now I think.

One good thing about diesels being banned soon there may be more of a push for LPG cars which would mean  more service areas offering gas hopefully.  Shell seem to be upgrading the LPG pumps and there seem to be more of them also so that's good news.

More like as the gas runs out at the BP stations it is not being replaced resulting in a staggered closure of these pumps.

peedee

BB what franchise was the service station you filled up from in Cirencester?

the 'cashier/supermarket' is a Co-Op, i assumed they manged the fuel, too......

just looked the Coop website and they have several filling stations, a number with LPG

Apparently BP do still sell LPG at some of their service stations, about 80 in total, having apparently got lots of gov incentives to install LPG capacity.  A searchable map is HERE. Only two once you get north of Edinburgh/Glasgow. Given the government subsidies, there should hopefully be security of supply for a while.

Does anyone know if the number of UK outlets for LPG (at the lump, so to speak) getting more or less. 

It just appears to me that there are less forecourts offering the option of LPG, although with 'education', there may be a larger number of those left who are allowing folk to refill appropriately designed cylinders.  Am I right or wrong in this assumption?

David 

David

I expect the determining factor is the number of vehicles running on LPG. I somehow doubt even if we all had refillable systems whether it would be enough to sustain it being widely available if that was the only use? Although totally unscientific I have only seen one filling station in MK selling LPG, there must be more but they are not that widespread. 

David