http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/petrol-prices-to-rise-5926710.html

Senator Cormann said he was confident of Parliament passing the bills within a year and warned that if it failed, the revenue would be returned to the oil giants and not motorists.

“It will go back to fuel manufactures and to fuel importers who would essentially have a windfall gain at that time,” he said. “There’s no obligation on those fuel importers or fuel manufacturers to remit that money to users.”

Hasn’t the government forced us to subsidise the fuel industry by stealth? What would have Ford & Holden done with a windfall like that?