{"id":374863,"date":"2025-04-12T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374863"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:05:51","slug":"conservatives-promise-to-axe-the-car-tax-that-would-have-added-10k-to-petrol-and-diesel-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374863","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives promise to axe the car tax that would have added $10k to petrol and diesel cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Labor wants the poor to subsidize the rich EV car buyers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Good news: The conservative opposition has promised to reduce the fines to zero for car manufacturers who sell \u201ctoo many\u201d diesel and petrol cars. This effectively negates the New Vehicle Emissions Standards (NVES), even though the Coalition says they will keep the standards (whatever that means).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As standards were ratcheted up the fines could be as much as $25,000 on the largest utes and 4WDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a nation of petrol-heads, it\u2019s amazing this diabolical policy hasn\u2019t sparked outrage, probably only because it was buried in complexity.  An honest government would have added a fee or a tax directly onto the kinds of cars they didn\u2019t want sold \u2014 they could call it a pollution tax to cover the cost of the damage. The reason the Labor Government didn\u2019t do that is because the unwashed masses would be revolting in the streets. So they make a rule that manufacturers have to sell a certain percentage of \u201cgood cars\u201d that make future weather nicer (in theory),  and then they can tell abject lies to the public like \u201cit\u2019s up to the car companies\u201d and \u201cmanufacturers don\u2019t have to pass the costs on\u201d \u2014 as if any profit making entity can absorb fines of millions without raising prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sole point of the NVES was to punish petrol and diesel car buyers and subsidize EV manufacturers, and pretend the government was not doing the taxing and subsidizing because the money didn\u2019t pass through any bureaucrat’s hands,\u00a0even though the sole cause of the money flow was indeed the government.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election 2025: Liberals to drop fines on car emissions<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Greg  Brown, Sarah Elks, and Joanne Panagopoulis, The Australian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Coalition will abolish fines for car companies who breach targets under Australia\u2019s first \u00advehicle emissions standards scheme, in a major election commitment aimed at taking down the Albanese government\u2019s claim that the price of petrol cars will not increase under Labor\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian can reveal the Coalition will retain the New Vehicle Emissions Standards, but will not punish companies financially that do not meet the tough carbon goals. Coalition \u00adsources said the policy, to be announced during the campaign, has the backing of the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies that miss the yearly target need to pay heavy fines or buy credits from suppliers that overperform, with industry modelling predicting car suppliers will be on the hook for $2.7bn of fines by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effect of the pseudo car tax would be to limit sales of petrol and diesel cars by raising their prices, or taking them off the market, while reducing EV car prices \u2014 a policy that takes money from the poor in the outer suburbs and country areas in order to subsidize cars bought by inner city rich people. As petrol and diesel cars became more expensive, obviously their second hand price would increase as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These people are professional liars:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chris Bowen (Energy Minister) implies the Labor policy has reduced the cost of EVs in Australia already (even before it started).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bowen said. \u201cWhen we came to office there were no models available under $45,000; now there\u2019s eight<\/em>. That is our policy starting to work with a lot more to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow fines and penalties \u201cincrease the options\u201d \u2014 as if stupid companies overseas were making cheap electric cars but forgot to send them to Australia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Chalmers said the NVES was about introducing more options. \u201cThat will put downward pressure on prices over time,\u201d<\/em> the Treasurer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Dutton needs to find short one-liner ways to sell this policy because it\u2019s a vote winner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neutered NVES would be barely an aspirational fantasy goal without the fines. Presumably the opposition decided to keep it anyway just so the Labor Party couldn\u2019t hit them easily with one-liners that \u201cLiberals don\u2019t care about pollution\u201d. Where is our honest national conversation? Gone with the billion-dollar biased ABC, and government regulations that stop new competition arising in free-to-air media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact the NVES is purely about CO2 emissions, not about pollution. Carbon dioxide is an asset to a dry agricultural nation. The Coalition should axe the NVES entirely. Petrol and diesel drivers help feed the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, the same sort of rules were already in place, and due to the awful consequences on the car industry, even the untouchable Keir Starmer Government, years away from the next election, is already cutting fines by 20% and exempting British manufacturers like McLaren, Aston Martin and Bentle<\/a>y. Fines in the UK were as high as \u00a315,000 per car<\/a>, and set to get worse. The UK government has also added in all kinds of what they call \u201cflexibilities\u201d to keep the illusion that they are not back-tracking, while finding excuses to reduce the penalties. But of course, flexibilities are Soviet style complexities that means everyone needs more lawyers and accountants and more bureaucrats. It still feeds The Blob. It\u2019s not the free market that brought the mass production of cheap cars to the unwashed masses in mere decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complexity helps the rich and punishes the poor, it just hides it better. The opposition should wage a war against these deceptive schemes. All the same outcomes could be achieved through honest simpler tax plans. Only liars and cheats want to dupe the voters with hidden subsidies that help the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good news: The conservative opposition has promised to reduce the fines to zero for car manufacturers who sell \u201ctoo many\u201d diesel and petrol cars. 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