The LPG price subsidy processing, reviewing, and appropriation from January to December of 2010 had been completed for this project with a total application of subsidy from each station for 120,116,989.835 liters and a total value of 240,233,977 NTD. The each review operation zone was separated into on-site auditing for each season and quality review was completed each month while executing non-informed vehicle auditing for a total of 20 station-times. The monthly quality review was directed into the index platform of the database, which automatically pointed out the irregularities and records for additional gas. The information eliminated after screening reached a percentage of 27% and the auditing of each month resolved the long-term problem of having insufficient video footage archive at the gas refuel stations. The LPG price subsidy review system was established with the vehicle license databank and the vehicle registration scan databank in 2009, and through linking to a computerized review system, it could cross-reference each entry and offer relevant information regarding immediate statistical analysis, rejection, and make-up of documentation on the website. The new floating subsidy policy would be instigated at the beginning of 2011, which had a difference of 12.7NTD compared to the fixed gas rate and the subsidy was adjusted according to the difference of the floating gas price. The most current amount of subsidy was delivered in real time to the industry in 3 ways - fax, text, and website announcements. Information was collected regarding the hybrid technologies and promotional systems from a total of 16 countries in Europe and North America. From the experiences of foreign promotional policies, we could see that the economy factor was still the main drive for the public to choose bi-fueled vehicles (i.e. vehicles fueled by both gasoline and LPG) and the period of return for modification cost was most attractive between 2 to 3 years. The questionnaires were issued to the owners of modified vehicles and regular gas vehicles from whom 1,269 and 910, respectively, were returned. Results from the modified vehicles questionnaires showed the reasons to switch to a hybrid vehicle were to reduce expenditures on fuel (91.7%), environmental factors (27.3%). 60.3% of owners interviewed expressed unwillingness to modify their vehicle into a bi-fueled vehicle for the reasons of inconvenience of refueling (47.4%), quality concern after modification (34.6%), and safety concerns for the vehicles (28.0%).

Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG);Hybrid-LPG Vehicle;Gas Refuel Station