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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jack Larkin

‘You can see why I love this car’: even amid a fuel crisis some Australian drivers can fill up for $60

Carl with his LPG car beside a sign for Broken Hill
Carl Camilleri and his LPI (LPG) Ford just outside Broken Hill. It is fuelled by liquid petroleum gas – a fossil fuel composed of propane and butane, compressed into a liquid. Photograph: Carl Camilleri

When Carl Camilleri goes to fill up his Ford Falcon XR6 Mark II, he pays just over 70c a litre for fuel. Filling up the whole tank costs about $60.

The tank is about 85 litres and, if driven daily, lasts Camilleri two to three weeks around town.

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