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in he bush it all comes ot of the same tanker

Tom - So it does. You learn something new every day. Domestic LPG is 100% propane, Auto LPG is more commonly, a mixture of propane and butane.
The % levels of butane and propane in Auto LPG vary substantially from State to State. W.A. has the highest butane content in Auto LPG, at around 40% on average.
Some of the Eastern States have very little and even no butane in their Auto LPG.

http://www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/fuelquality/standards/lpg/faq.html (see 2nd last paragraph)

Cheers - Ron.

I must apologise, I got my States mixed up - It's the old CRS kicking in, I shouldn't have relied on memory - and I had to go back and check the figures.
It's Victoria & S. A. that have the highest % of butane, not W.A. W.A. has the lowest butane content of all, at 2%. Here's the precise figures - not from memory, as in my last post.
The figures don't add up to 100% because of traces of other gases.

STATE - PROPANE % - BUTANE %
QLD ......... 78.4 ............ 21.6
VIC / SA ... 51.4 ............ 47.6
WA .......... 97.3 ............. 2
NSW ........ 61.4 ............ 35.4

Gee the WA people would be getting "shorted" at least 50kms a tank on those figures. I could really tell when I got a tank full heavy in butane because of the little bit of extra power and the extra kms for no real reason.

Mike - Someone is certainly "shorting" us, because I've noticed in the last couple of tanks of LPG, that the ute is not getting anywhere near the fuel consumption I was getting previously. I've got a 75L tank and could always get 350kms out of it around the city - but recently I've only been getting a little over 300kms. I dunno what's going on.

What with major LPG production problems at Kwinanal, leading to shortages - the hose plasticiser problems - the rocketing price - and the extra road tax being steadily added to LPG - LPG is becoming a joke.

The LPG industry is in crisis, because people are turning away from LPG in droves. It's simply cheaper to run on petrol nowadays.
The LPG installers are shutting up shop in droves, and people are even converting their forklifts back to petrol.
This is typical of what happens when we have a Govt who only pays lip service to support for the alternative fuels industry.

http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/last-rites-for-the-lpg-industry/story-fnda1bsz-1226364134999

Cheers - Ron.