{"id":7591,"date":"2015-07-01T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2015-07-01T05:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:57:02","slug":"lpg-van-driver-saves-500-every-10000-miles-would-it-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7591","title":{"rendered":"LPG van driver saves \u00a3500 every 10,000 miles. Would it work for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lpg-tree-surgeon-graham-free-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Surgeon Graham Free chops his fuel bills with LPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lpg-tree-surgeon-graham-free-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lpg-tree-surgeon-graham-free-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lpg-tree-surgeon-graham-free.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Buckinghamshire tree surgoen Graham Free\u00a0is an LPG convert.<\/p>\n<p>Although he only does around 10,000 miles per year, Graham says that running his van on LPG saves about \u00a3500 each year.<\/p>\n<p>The scope for bigger savings for higher mileage drivers is clear &#8212; and Graham says that LPG is more widely available than many motorists believe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I first started using autogas seven years ago, there were only three local stations to choose from. I now have a choice of five within a 20 mile radius so who knows what this could rise to in the future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone whose business revolves around the environment,\u00a0the\u00a0eco credentials of LPG are also very welcome.<\/p>\n<p>LPG produces\u00a033 per cent less CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions than petrol and 45 per cent less than diesel, as well as up to 82 per cent less Nitrogen Oxide pollutants than petrol and 99 per cent less than diesel, according to Autogas Limited,\u00a0the main supplier of LPG at UK\u00a0fuel stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree surgeon Graham Free saves \u00a3500 for every 10,000 miles he drives by using a LPG-fuelled van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1924,1925,1923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7593,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}