Convert to LPG Aussies urged

Former GM Holden engineer and safety campaigner Dr Laurie Sparke wants Australians to convert their cars and trucks to LPG and natural gas to avert what otherwise will be a catastrophe for the country – a shortfall of transport fuels.

Dr Sparke told a Society of Automotive Engineers conference across the Tasman that Australia was facing a supply crisis.


He said the danger to the economy was getting more urgent and called for a massive shift to LPG and natural gas. Oil depletion was arguably the most serious crisis ever to face Australian society, he said.

He warned that the Australian Government’s economic research agency Abare had forecast a 90 per cent probability of a major and immediate shortfall of oil.

He said oil supplies were predicted by the International Energy Agency to become extremely tight within five years, and oil production in most of the nations supplying Australia was falling and that as many of these nations were developing their economies they would keep more oil for themselves and export less to Australia.

New Zealand Herald