Happy weekend folks, here's a new post I've written up about how bad it is that Australia is following the EU and the US in implementing vehicle efficiency standards that fail to rein in the unstoppable expansion of modern cars.
Like the EU, and the US, Australia's climate policy suite does something but it falls short of what's required - and defanging climate policy to avoid a backlash from big car companies and right-wing disinformation machines seems to be a root cause.
Driven by greed and profit, car manufacturers are creating worse emissions for fossil cars (and weakening emissions reductions from EVs) by oversizing them. The Australian Labor government is certainly not alone in failing to directly address the root cause of emissions growth for road transport, but that doesn't make it any less vital that they design climate policy fit for the age of the urban tank.
