Transport is Australia's second biggest source of climate pollution, and most of it’s coming from the exhausts of our cars, utes and trucks.
But we can put our vehicle emissions in reverse! Strong fuel efficiency standards now would make cleaner vehicles more available and affordable to more people in Australia and hit the accelerator on taking CO2 off our roads.
Right now the Australian government is asking us in the community for our input on these standards. It's critical that we lend our voices now to make the standards strong enough to clean up our dangerous vehicle pollution.
Make a comment now for strong fuel efficiency standards to be included in an ACF community submission to the Australian government before the Friday 31 May deadline.
What to include in your comment
In your submission, you can mention that you want the standards to:
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Take effect as soon as possible: Have the standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
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Be tough on pollution: Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
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Insure affordability: Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
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Be mandatory and rigorous: Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Read more: 'What are fuel efficiency standards?'
Latest Supporters
This is a no brainer! Lumped together with Russia for inertia, as our planet is choking. We are the shame of the ‘western’ world. Of course we need to have fuel efficiency standards. This is one of the easier challenges to address. I helped elect this government and I will eagerly help depose them, unless they show real urgency in dealing with the climate emergency issues.
Please deliver strong fuel efficiency standards.
Exhaust fumes from vehicles are a health risk.
They are a major contributor to climate change.
Ensure all new cars and trucks sold in Australia by 2035 have zero emissions. Don’t allow offsets that stop genuine reduction in CO2 emissions.
The most important thing we need is excellent integrated transport. I actually managed to get our council to pass a motion to lobby for an integrated transport study last night, across 3 municipalities.
Strong fuel efficiency standards need to be introduced as soon as possible – considering transport is Australia’s second largest source of climate pollution. The standards need to be legislated, making them mandatory for all manufacturers, and should require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035.
Making EV’s more affordable is imperative if we are to make the necessary reduction in vehicle emissions.
Please keep the CO2 coming to feed our plant life which in turn stores carbon and emmits oxygen to further support human, animal, etc life.
Let’s keep selling coal and gas for overseas countries to burn while our own governments, caught up un their hypocritcal denial and futile vision of carbon neutral, starve their own countrymen of their right to energy supplies for domestic and industrial needs. The irony is us selling our gas overseas so that we can buy it back for our own desperate .needs.
We got rid of our photocopy paper industry so that we could have other countries supply our needs. Didn’t we learn anything from the supply dilemma created by the covid plandemic? If you wanted to destroy a country and drive it down the S bend you’d follow the current policies promoted by most of the current Australian governments.
They won’t be happy until the day that the Chinese land on our shores and rape and pillage their way through our once free and enlightened population.
Strong fuel efficiency standards are way overdue. They need to be introduced now and the legislation must lead to genuine reductions in CO2 emissions. All new cars sold should have zero emissions preferably before 2035.
We need to have strong fuel efficiency standards that will drive the move to electric vehicles delivered in this government term and effective from 2025 at the latest. New combustion engine cars should cease by 2030.
Exhaust fumes from vehicles is a health risk to everyone with heart failure, lung desease, and people of all ages, electric cars are faster, safer(autopilot), cheaper, and healthier. The blind can’t hear them so they need to make more noise, obviously.
Australia is overdue for strong vehicle emissions standards. Please urgently make them mandatory for all new vehicles, have them take effect in this current term of government, and don’t allow the use of offsets that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Please deliver fuel efficiency standards and tax fuel more to help us to minimise carbon emissions.
Australia is overdue for strong vehicle emissions standards. Please urgently make them mandatory for all new vehicles to take effect in this current term of government, and don’t allow the use of offsets that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Was horrified to learn that we stand with Russia in not caring about the health of our people! It is Way BEYOND time for fuel efficiency standards as SOON as humanely possible. Cars must have 0 emissions, be mandatory and tough. Time to Save money by decreasing the health costs caused by our rampant emissions.