Saw this article this morning https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/lpg-decline-incentives-disappear-and-pumps-close the number of LPG outlets has dropped by 75% and is no longer the cheap fuel - presumably makes it harder to break even from using a Safefill compared to Flogas LPG.
LPG on the way out
- Thread starter RogerL
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Strangely last year a new LPG outlet opened not far from us. The last time we filled our Safefill there it was about £0.70p a litre? To fill an almost empty 7.5kg bottle cost us under £10. We gave up on Calorgas several or more years ago so broke even a few years ago.
Our local Morrison’s stopped selling Autogas around two years ago. I think they have sold or are in the process of selling their forecourts.
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Is this the stuff that vehicles with “underslung gas tanks” use. There was a brand new motorhome ( forget which one) at the Nec last week where this was a sales feature.
Mel
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Morrisons is selling its forecourts to Motor Fuel Group (MFG) and rebranding the kiosks as "Morrison Daily"
Don't know how LPG supply works in UK. In NZ we've few different bottle sizes with 9kg being most common by far. Most garages offer swap a 9kg bottle instead of filling. LPG company supplies garage with full bottles and takes the old ones away for filling and testing if needed. Works out about twice as expensive as fill but very convenient for both customers and retails which don't need LPG infrastructure. Swap a bottles are available in most small towns.
Price is same regardless of how much gas is left in bottle, unless customers have 2 bottles they rarely run one dry before swapping.
Can still fill bottles and need to if using 4kg and 14kg, but fill stations are far and few between, maybe one or two in a city.
Price is same regardless of how much gas is left in bottle, unless customers have 2 bottles they rarely run one dry before swapping.
Can still fill bottles and need to if using 4kg and 14kg, but fill stations are far and few between, maybe one or two in a city.
The process and relative costs of pre filled and pumped LPG are similar, but in the UK most (before anyone says otherwise) suppliers are tied to a particular brand of bottled gas, and wont swap out bottles against a different brand.
The classic supplier in the UK was Calor, who rented you a bottle ( you never owned it) and they would only swap out for another Calor bottle.
Calor suppliers will not accept anything other than a Calor bottle for exchange. But if you look in the Flogas website there is a long list of other suppliers cylinders that are accepted for exchange. But Calor is not on the list for obvious reasons.
In our area several outlets including BQ have now transferred to Flogas for steel or composite cylinder exchanges.
In our area several outlets including BQ have now transferred to Flogas for steel or composite cylinder exchanges.
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