FULL INTERVIEW: Liberal MP Craig Kelly has labelled the Opposition's electric vehicle policy 'complete and utter madness', arguing that it will 'cost the economy billions'. Labor has said if its elected, it will aim to have electric vehicles make up 50 per cent of new car sales by 2030.
Mr Kelly says there is 'no place less suitable' for electric cars than Australia when the nation's energy grids are coal-fired and 'will be for years to come'. Electric vehicles in Australia, Mr Kelly says, would be essentially charged on coal-fired power and would ultimately 'increase CO2 emissions', which Labor also plans to reduce by 45 per cent.
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Libs claims so ridiculous, voters just brush it off. When they say Labor's ClimateAction policies 'will cut your wages $9,000 pa', voters laugh as they know Labor will increase wages. And now 'they're coming after your ute' - hilarious! emissions ElectricVehicles auspol
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Labor have opened themselves to this attack because the Liberals are desperately trying to turn nothing into something, and they’re always backed by Murdoch regardless
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp They've been out explaining it daily. It's in their environmental policy document that no commentator on sky seems to have bothered reading.
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Can someone ask AustralianLabor wether they will tax ICE vehicles?
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp And how are libs going to reach the same target it is after all the same policy
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Is this flawed electric car policy document part of the ALP National Convention policy document or a questionable one of Shorten's.
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Thing I don't get is, where are the sagely-nodding heads around the political errors in Coalition's 25-50% EV target for 2030? Are we just assuming they never meant it to happen, so they deserve no criticism either?
Gallo_Ways billshortenmp Perhaps Shorten needs to focus on other major issues facing Australians rather going to the election with a badly flawed policy and yet, where's the material coming from to build batteries for electric cars. How many recharging stations will be along the Bruce highway & others?
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Labor’s electric car ‘policy madness’ is a ‘recipe for disaster’: Kenny | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says Labor’s climate policy and electric car plan is ‘policy madness’ and a ‘recipe for disaster’. \n\nAs part of his climate policy, Opposition leader Bill Shorten has committed to ensuring 50 per cent of all vehicles, equating to about 575,000 cars, sold in 10 years’ time will be electric.\n\nFollowing a radio interview in which Mr Shorten made errors in the time it takes to charge one of these vehicles, Mr Kenny says his ‘silly comments’ have exposed the ‘recklessness and implausibility’ of his climate and energy policy push.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n chriskkenny billshortenmp Common sense will prevail you would hope and the electric car bull shit will die a natural death. Who ever set silly Billy up with this rubbish, will be laughing their heads off ! 😂 chriskkenny billshortenmp More Murdoch’s influence on fakenews? chriskkenny billshortenmp Over in Texas they charge car 30 minutes by sun look it up
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Labor’s electric car push sounds like another pink batts scheme ‘on steroids’: Bolt | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says Labor’s plan to put more electric cars on the road is like another pink batts scheme ‘on steroids’. \n\nAs part of his climate policy announced on Monday, Opposition leader Bill Shorten has committed to ensure 50 per cent of all cars sold in 10 years’ time will be electric.\n\nMr Bolt says that if Australians use more electric cars, people will use more electricity, which Labor will provide less of when closing coal-fired power generators to cut emissions. \n JaneMarwick billshortenmp It's a green flag for the opportunity of the century. How would this compare to a 1910 call for petrol powered vehicles? Go have a look!!! JaneMarwick billshortenmp It’s OK. Electric cars are coal powered. JaneMarwick billshortenmp Maybe Credlin would like to go back 100 years to see how petrol ousted horses. It started like she sounds...
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Labor’s electric car target is 'not realistic at all': Sharma | Sky News AustraliaDave Sharma is warning against Labor's 50 per cent electric car target, saying a transition to electric vehicles ‘should be driven by consumer behaviour and preferences’, not forced by politicians. \n\nLabor has committed to ensuring half the nation’s new cars are electric by 2030, a policy that the Liberal Candidate for Wentworth believes is ‘not realistic at all’.\n\nWhile Mr Sharma says he hopes to see Australia move towards a lower-carbon future, he believes the country and its leaders needs to ‘be practical and responsible in how we go about doing this’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Not forced. It's only a target of 50% new sales by 2030. It's very very similar to the coalition's policy on EVs. What government should do is work on infrastructure. Despite the moaning by the coalition in the last week, they themselves have been funding charging infrastructure what if nobody buys them? Oh of course, a carbon dioxide tax on petrol and diesel cars, trucks etc for this giant hoax This is a perfect example of a liberal politician thinking that sitting on their hands is a perfect climate change plan.
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PM is ‘bashing’ electric vehicles | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Electric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari says it’s regrettable Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ‘bashing’ the emerging sector.\n\nThe Coalition is accusing Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of trying to ‘end the weekend’ after Labor announced it is backing a target to have 50 per cent of all new car sales to be electric vehicles by 2030.\n\nMr Morrison says while the Coalition supports the technology, he has questions about whether an electric car could 'tow a trailer … or a boat.’\n\nMr Jafari told Sky News Mr Morrison hasn't realised the potential economic opportunities presented by electric transport.\n\n\n Bloody government forcing me to drive a stoopid electric car, how the bloody hell am I meant to get to Bali now It hasn’t stuck a nerve in the electorate most people are much smarter than to believe the liberal garbage .
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