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The Inspection Project of the LPG Price Subsidy Program

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Main tasks of The plan include four parts, and Part one is the acceptance, review, verification and appropriation of allowance applications; Part two is to manage the LPG database, to reserve data, and to complete statistical analysis; Part three is to collect relevant information concerned domestic Hybrid-LPG vehicles and gas refuel stations; and Part four is to launch educational trainings and upgrade the efficiency, with planning efforts described below: (1)Use computer to comprehensive review and cross compare the acceptance, check and audit of the annual grants application cases, and use the information system to automatically produce the write-off complied chart to ensure the correctness of audit data. Because of the reduce of the allowance of gas price, the gas refuel station has decreased the quality of submitted cases, as a result, shall strengthen counseling the follow-up promotion to make sure the gas refuel station submit the filling information on time. (2)The build of information system can compile data in all databases , and cross comparison and comprehensive check can improve the operating performance of the review. Gas refuel station can also learn the information of returned and reimbursed parts, the bulletin information of gas allowance float-adjusted unit price, vehicle registration query of filling record (including plate, fuel type, valid and inspection date) and related statistical analysis in applied cases through the LPG database system. (3) Compile the filling records of applied allowance cases to database, carry out the related statistical analysis to present the current promoted effectiveness or for the reference to the follow-up promotion. The gas allowance policy has adjusted to floated unit price allowance since 2011; compile the write-off record of 2010-2012, the adjustment of gas allowance policy can dramatically decrease the promotion cost and gas evolution can be remained stable, which shows that the allowance method adjustment can also maintain the willingness of using liquefied petroleum gas; the gas price difference maintained by gas allowance has economic incentives. (4)The plan has compiled the documents of 2007-2012, and it can learn from multivariate analysis that the adjustment of gas allowance policy indeed has an effect on filling behavior. Before the adjustment of allowance method, the vehicle filling is affected by gas refuel station number and gas price, after the adjustment of allowance method, the filling behavior is affected by the price difference of filled gas price. (5) Currently (dated at the end of 2012), there are 65 gas refuel stations national-wide, in which 5 gas refuel stations are out of business, 2 gas refuel stations are opening but not operating, so there are totally 58 gas refuel stations are on business. The gas refuel stations which are out of business indicated that the decision to stop operating is because of long-term operating losses; and the required minimum gas volume of daily operation surveyed by Energy Bureau shows that current operating stations all reach the required minimum gas volume of daily operation. (6) In order to understand public views and suggestions, this plan carries out on-site visit to gas refuel station employer, refitting factory employer, Hybrid-LPG vehicle owner and gasoline car owner. The employer of gas refuel station and refitting factory suggested to constantly providing gas allowance for the maintenance of the stability of gas price difference, and another stressed the advantages of LPG vehicles. It can be learned from the plan and the survey result of Hybrid-LPG vehicle owner and gasoline vehicle owner that the incentive of modifying the vehicle to LPG vehicle is mainly to decrease the impact of high petrol price and secondly, it is more environment-friendly. In addition, Hybrid-LPG vehicle owner and gasoline vehicle owner’s promotion information resource of LPG vehicle is from gas refuel station and refitting factory. The follow-up promotion to strengthen LPG vehicle is better advocated by gas refuel station and refitting factory employer, which cannot only increase the Hybrid-LPG vehicles, but also the gas filling volume. (7) Compile the results of gas allowance implementation over the years, it can learn that the promoted filling volume of LPG can replace about 1% of gasoline use and the gas allowance can disperse the use of parts of energy. (8)According to taxi’s annual average mileage researched by the Ministry of Transportation, vehicle’ fuel cost to be saved can be calculated through vehicle’s energy consumption. The gas price difference not be subsidized in 2012 can save NTD 28,398 /year, and the gas price allowance of Environmental Protection Agency can additionally save NTD 1,769 /year, and the taxi modified as LPG vehicle can save about NTD 30,167 /year. (9)The purposes of the promotion of LPG vehicle are to reduce the impact of high petrol price on public, to disperse energy use and to improve air quality. Take economic incentive into consideration for public, it can learn that taxi can save about NTD 30,000 /year, and with the preferential environmental protection and carbon reduction card of NTD 20,000 issued by gas refuel station association, it can take back LPG modification cost within one year, therefore, it still needs gas allowance to maintain gas price difference in short term to reduce the impact of high petrol price on public. In terms of long-term promotion, it shall advocate collecting the fuel tax going with oil collection and other measures in the follow up, in addition to energy conservation policies that can be complemented and the principles matched the society cost that can be borne by polluter, it also can make vehicle owner to switch to more economical transportation means to save fuel costs. (10)This plan has already opened one gas refuel station business contact conference and one gas refuel station business forum separately in Aug., 2012 and Jan., 2013. Improve administrative effectiveness through educational training meeting and carry out two-way communication.
Keyword
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Hybrid-LPG Vehicle, Gas Refuel Station
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