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21 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Full page ad in @theage from broad coalition today telling Victorian Treasurer @timpallas & Vic MPs to drop plans to tax Electric Vehicles

A tax only approach to EVs tax will harm Victorian's access to cleanest most affordable EVs

#springst #auspol

australiainstitute.org.au/post/25-organi…
Victoria is the only place in the world that is bringing in a tax on EVs with no incentives to balance it out

EVs are cheaper to fuel, to maintain and good for climate but the cheapest models aren't coming here cause of moves like this from @timpallas

theage.com.au/politics/victo…
Australia has one of the lowest uptakes of EVs in the OECD and there are no federal policies to drive EV uptake or even curb transport emissions.

The vacuum of leadership at the federal level is leaving states to introduce harmful approaches like this

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Penalising EV owners because they don’t consume petrol that pollutes the atmosphere and our environment is absurd.

If the Vic Gov is looking to increase revenue, there are far better ways to go about it that don’t disincentivise the use of EVs

#springst
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The United States, the world's largest economy is about to officially annouce atleast a HALVING of its emissions and new @TheAusInstitute shows Australia should do the same

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NEW - Morrison will 'fire the recovery' with fossil gas

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27 Aug 20
Minister @AngusTaylorMP is trying to amend Australia's green bank @CEFCAus from a profit-making investor in renewables to a loss making underwriting of fossil fuel projects

Key concerns with amendment (thead) #auspol

smh.com.au/politics/feder… summary in @smh from @micksfoley
1. Invest

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18 May 20
Energy and Emissions Reductions Minister #AngusTaylor quietly commissioned fossil fuel executive Grant King to review gov climate policy

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First this is a red carpet exercise for the Government's failed clean coal technologies

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The gov has already spent $1.3b on CCS with nothing to show for it, see @TheAusInstitute report

Yep clean coal 2.0

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27 Feb 20
Minister for Emissions Reductions will move away from highly successful emission reduction tech (renewable energy)....

To the most unsuccessful emissions reduction technologies in the last 15 years - Carbon Capture and Storage for Fossil Fuels

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theguardian.com/australia-news…
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) coupled with coal ('clean coal') has been a dismissal failure

Both Labor and Coalition governments have invested over $1.3 billion since 2003 to get CCS on coal up and running and have nothing to show for it

#auspol

tai.org.au/content/money-…
The optimism and money thrown at CCS has been an international failure and distraction to keep fossil fuels alive

See @TheAusInstitute report in 2018 that every target set for CCS, be it from IEA to IPCC has failed.

#auspol

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There will be alot of scrambling to hide years of climate wrecking behaviour from the likes Business Council of Australia and major fossil fuel companies

Don't be fooled - they are just trying to buy their way back and as cheaply as possible

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australia.chevron.com/news/2020/aust…
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