Greens Leader Richard Di Natale says Australia is a step behind the rest of the world when it comes to adopting electric vehicles.
Senator Di Natale has told Sky News that future vehicles will have low running costs and low emissions, and combustion vehicles will not be an option. He argues the conservatives’ ‘ridiculous’ scare campaign clinging to 1950s technology deters progress. His remarks come after Labor announced its target to make 50 per cent of new cars sold in Australia electric by 2030. Image: News Corp Australia
Conservative responses fall into three categories: don’t believe the science; can’t afford technology; puerile hate. Nothing rational.
What type of car does he own petrol diesel or hybrid.
Hes an idiot send him to the outback with an electric car where paddock is so large u muster by helicopter. No liw powered electric vehicle wld be able to handle it. Not to mention many of those properties are on generators. Not all have mains power
The man is dangerous in his insanity.
I wish people would wake up to their senses and not vote green .
Sky, you seem to be in love with this bloke. Most of Australia wants to know why?
Dickybird says there won't be a choice on electric cars, maybe so, but we do have a choice on electing the Greens party! As useless as tits on a bull!
No. Saving us from economic terrorism from Greens n Labor.
And there you are. Bill Short'ons boss. Did'nt have to wait long for him to shoot his mouth off. Who votes for these lunatics.
Forget electric cars. How about cars that run on ethanol if you want to reduce emissions. Sth America do it, why can't we. Greens are morons. They proove it every time one opens his/her gob.
So let market forces dictate the transition Di Nutter - we don’t need to spend $Billions of tax payer money to do so earlier so that Labor/Greens can claim virtue 👎😡 auspol
What in the world would be scarier than the Greens rabble holding the balance of power? auspol skynews smh
I dont understand why RichardDiNatale can't just explain how all his ideas will do anything but smash those who can least afford it.
Well the Liberal party is dark ages when promoting women in the federal party. Why wouldn't they be behingd the times on other things?
Di Natale full of lies again. Most countries in the world do not have 50% electric cars and countries that do have many electric cars are small. They don't have the same distances Australia has.
So true
Hard to argue against him. FTTN NBN ring any bells?
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