House debates Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006

Second Reading

Monday, 14 August 2006 House of Representatives

Bernie Ripoll

Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations

7:38 pm

You are right: I could not help myself; it will be in this place for a long time. As I have said to many people: one small fluffy toy but a huge reaction from government. Why is it so? We also need to strengthen the Trade Practices Act to give greater scope for dealing with abuse of market power. I will end on this point: about six years ago I was a customer of LPG and I went to great expense to convert my car. But, like so many other people, I got disillusioned that the government would not assist and that LPG kept getting more expensive and, proportionately, became uneconomical as a fuel to use. It was cheaper to buy fuel, which is what I started doing. I was driven out of LPG, and I know many others were. Not only was I driven out but the people who installed my gas conversion were also driven out. The government needs to do more about this. (Time expired)

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