Foxy,
What I’d like to see is an investment in the abolition of GST on the Excise component of the pump price of motor fuel.

This is all I have to say on the matter.
http://youtu.be/Z7V49or8t8M

Thanks Steele for a very incisive opening post. It's unfortunate how the Morrison conservative government has set us back years in not only the development of electric vehicles, but in so many other areas as well. Lets hope we can catch up to the rapidly changing world.

One good thing as we progress forward, we leave the likes of ttbn and his irrelevant thinking further behind.

Hi Foxy,

The 1950's Liberal election campaign would have suited the likes of ttbn and others on the Forum down to the ground, after all in their minds its still 1952.

Hi Paul,

Politics has changed and most of us are watching it
unfold with relief, hope, and great anticipation.

It's good to see new changes taking place so earlier.
The new government is considering reserving gas for
the east coast in a bid to stabilize energy prices.

Matt Thistlethwaite, Minister for Defence and
Veterans' Affairs has now been appointed as Assistant
Minister for the Republic by the Queen's representative
in Australia, the Governor General David Hurley.

The PM has pledged Labor will prioritize a referendum on
an Indigenous Voice To Parliament and Constitutional
recognition for First Nations People in its first 3 years.
The Head of State question will come later.

A discussion on
a republic will be the next natural step. In the meantime
Thistlethwaite said his principal role would be to educate
Australian people about the current constitutional arrangement
and the English monarch as Head of State.

As Queen Elizabeth comes to the twilight years of her reign,
it's a good opportunity for a serious discussion about what
comes next for Australia.

And we have a new government willing to do that.

Before we get on with having more and more electric vehicles we need to make sure that we have the capacity to recharge them.

A couple of voices of reason on here, but still too many off, "in return to nature la la utopian land."
It takes coal and electricity to charge those electric cars.

Any great product that saves people money and works well, just naturally takes the lead in public sales and use. The fact is although the renewables (and I think solar is great).
the fact is renewables,cannot compete with the efficiency and cheaper cost of coal.
Coal doesn't need expensive batteries to work in bad weather or in peak overloads on the grid.

What is going on is, people,( believers that they would make huge profits by investing in solar and solar batteries have found out they are not competing with coal when it comes to the main choices of power in the competitive consumer market place.

So they are demanding huge amounts of taxpayer money from the people, to be used by the government to fund their sales and promotion of their solar battery businesses etc. Plus they want the govt to shut down coal, their superior competitor in the market place

They are basically demanding the govt fund them because after all this time they haven't been able to dominate and compete on the large scale with coal. Consumers vote with their feet and money.
Renewables are a great backup, but coal still rightly holds the no one place for reliable cheap power.

Manmade global warming is a whole other debate.