How about putting pressure on the usa and israel and stopping collaborating woth them in this war of agression
For fucks sake.
I fucking hate all our politicians
This one was a right move. Fuel price is in everything. Keeping it under control is right thing.
“Omg, fuel cost is skyrocketing”
“We could promote elec-”
“Quick! Allow cars to run on bunker fuels!”
Is Australia trying a mad-max speedrun?
You think promoting electric anything will make any difference now?
We need to open more fuel refineries here again. Like it or not, petrol and diesel aren’t going away in our lifetime. There is simply no replacement for them across the board.
They’re going back to the standard we had in December last year. It’s not a dramatic downgrade, just more sulfur iirc.
That does make it sound better, but that change was already a more than a decade overdue
Here’s the part most Australians don’t know. For years, our petrol would have been illegal in almost every country we’d consider a peer. Europe hit 10ppm sulphur limits back in 2009. The United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, China, even India all got there before us.
Global consultancy Stratas Advisors ranked Australia’s fuel quality 85th in the world. We sat between Argentina and Tanzania. A 2017 Commonwealth review put us 70th globally and dead last among the 35 OECD countries.
And what are we going back to?
Air pollution causes approximately 5,000 premature deaths in Australia each year. Vehicle emissions account for a significant chunk of that figure. Research from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare linked dirty fuel directly to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and asthma. Emerging studies suggest connections to Alzheimer’s, dementia, and ADHD.
The annual health cost? Around $17.8 billion, with another $4.5 billion in welfare losses and lost productivity. That exceeds the national burden of obesity.
The International Council on Clean Transportation estimated that proper fuel standards could reduce premature deaths from vehicle emissions by up to 75 per cent. For years, Australian policymakers had that research sitting on their desks.
That doesn’t seem like a big deal in the short term.
Similar level to “improve housing availability by freezing housing standards”. Hurts the same people it purports to help.
Yeah but also nah.
The relaxed standards will cause more emissions and may reduce longevity of a vehicle.
The question is how much of each will occur, which I think is unknowable?
We do know - none. These new emission laws only came in a few months ago, so we’re just going back to what we were 4 months ago.
If the new laws weren’t going to reduce emissions, why were they introduced?
More so we know it doesn’t impact longevity of cars. Emissions have only been lowered for a few months, going back for a while won’t hurt if it helps people afford petrol.
Amazing.
Are they going to call the cheaper fuel ‘Guzzoline’?
