The biggest volume car manufacturers world wide are moving to electric and these idiots are calling who stupid and why? Their politics has shoved their heads so far up their clackers they can’t here the electorates and are calling most of their constituents mad. Do they turn the lights on at home? How much cheaper would it be with renewables and a battery. Oh the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow is that a statistical fact in Australia and batteries don’t work? (ODT)

Self-styled “modern Liberals” have ridiculed Labor’s electric vehicle target as a Soviet-style engineering program that will become “Pink Batts all over again”, joining the government’s aggressive campaign despite serious concerns about climate change in their own seats.

Labor used a Senate estimates session on Monday to retaliate, pointing to millions of dollars the government had spent encouraging Australians to use electric vehicles, and highlighting instances of Coalition MPs routinely spruiking the technology.

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