Senate debates
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Mandatory Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards
4:04 pm
Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that:
- (i)
- road transport amounts to 12 per cent of Australia’s total carbon dioxide emissions, and the largest source of these emissions was passenger cars,
- (ii)
- more efficient cars would improve Australia’s energy security,
- (iii)
- internationally, a number of states have adopted mandatory standards for vehicle fuel efficiency, for example Europe is in the process of legislating for a target of 130g CO2 per km by 2015,
- (iv)
- the automotive industry accepted a voluntary target of 222g CO2 per kilometre by 2010 and that this target was met ahead of schedule, arguably with ‘business as usual’ improvements,
- (v)
- the 2010-11 Budget cut $200 million from the Green Car Innovation Fund, which provides grants to automobile industries to encourage investment in efficient technology, a cut that was justified on the basis that demand for grants was lower than anticipated, and
- (iv)
- in July 2009, the Council of Australian Governments requested that the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government produce a regulatory impact statement into a mandatory scheme for vehicle fuel efficiency and that this report was originally to be made public for consultation before the end of March 2010, but has still not been released; and
- (b)
- calls on the Government to release the regulatory impact statement into a mandatory scheme for vehicle fuel efficiency and move to introduce mandatory fuel efficiency standards without further delay.
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