Let's take pollution off our roads

Please deliver strong fuel efficiency standards to clean up road pollution. This means requiring 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.
I want the standards to come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
The standard should 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.

Thankyou
christine huber

Why does nobody say anything about our presence in the sky as though the fuel burned by planes,jets, ect.doesn’t matter. Or is it just too convenient for people?. Everything is just too convenient for us Humans will destroy the earth in the quest for convenience for ourselves . Money, power, fame, ownership, war and destruction and a never ending quest for the perfect economic growth…..

Please make Australia a smart nation and introduce vehicle emission standards equal to Norway (and other countries with a high uptake of electric vehicles).
The benefit to the health of city dwellers would be enormous, as there’d be a huge reduction in harmful pollutants in the atmosphere. Better health means less demand on health professionals and the obvious flow on cost savings to government.
The earth’s temperature is still rising, so please act now to force serious change, with strong laws to lower vehicle emissions.
What about manufacturing our own electric vehicles?
Thanks for your time.

A recent research study summarises the health challenges of exposure to air pollution:

“Outdoor air pollution is the leading environmental cause of premature mortality globally, contributing to between four and nine million deaths annually. Short- and long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with the development and exacerbation of both acute and chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, respiratory disease [e.g., asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD)], diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions, as well as common and severe mental health conditions. Following the recent World Health Organization (WHO) revision of the annual PM2.5 guideline value to 5 μg/m3 and NO2 guideline value to 10μg/m3, it is now estimated that over 99% of the world population is exposed to unhealthy levels of pollutants, further reinforcing air pollution as one of the main public health priorities worldwide.” (Ronaldson et al 2022: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1035415)

Vehicle exhausts are a major contributor to air pollution, causing serious health implications including cardiovascular disease (Miller and Newby 2019: https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvz228) and cardiovascular disease is the World’s biggest killer (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death).

Strong regulation and enforcement on all forms of human action that are causing serious health issues like those listed above makes economic sense – we will have lower costs for health care needs for example as these preventable conditions can be limited.

Please act as soon as possible to legislate strongly to reduce unnecessary exposure to toxic vehicle exhausts. There are some great stories emerging of people transforming carbon-fuelled cars into electric vehicles in Melbourne – these types of innovations have so much to offer. Fewer vehicles on the roads, and lower emissions, less waste after the useful lifelength of a vehicle. (We cannot simply add EVs to the current vehicle density – we need to reduce all vehicle use and switch in EVs for diesel/petrol alternatives.)

We have much hope in your Government – please bring in the needed regulations to help Australia perform better on the global stage at transforming our system to a sustainable and healthy one. Future generations will thank you

We just bought a new car, but it is not an EV, the price was too high and no 4×4′s as yet. Please make the standards for new cars stricter, so EV’s become more affordable. AND of course get us closer to the 0 emissions. This will now be a lot more difficult because of the approval of that new Coal Mine!!!!
Think of all those people who will follow us on this planet, we can make it a healthy wealthy place if we really start implementing the science we have and take care of the environment before we think of the profits we can make. Make sure we can still live on this Earth, make the emission Standards stronger for new vehicles. Joke

Please deliver strong fuel efficiency and emissions regulations at least as good as preferably better than New Zealand.

Please include strong incentives for conversion of existing diesel city delivery and interstate transportation to electric. While this area of transportation is ignored carbon dioxide reduction targets are unlikely to be met. Diesel also produces toxic benzene particles derivatives which are harmful to people’s health, yet another reason to get off diesel.

Australia’s almost total reliance on diesel for transport is surely a national security issue.

So please act on these significant issues with the strongest fuel and emissions legislation.

Yours Sincerely

Phillip Baron

Road pollution causes more deaths than car accidents and the transition to clean green transport needs to rollout rapidly. We can’t afford to stand by while other countries race ahead with transport reforms helping both the environment & health of their population

Please implement strong fuel efficiency standards to help combat the exponential increase in climate change and corresponding natural disasters. Totally removing our reliance on fossil fuels for energy and transportation is the only way to slow the rate of climate change but as the government is not brave enough to make that commitment, ( recent approval of new coal mines!!!!) the least it can do is legislate for tighter fuel efficiency and encourage use of electric vehicles.

Please require higher standards for emissions from new cars. This will deliver economic benefits in fewer hospitalisations particularly in urban areas. This will also help meet our climate change targets and keep in line with requirements and expectations of our trading partners.

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in vehicle emission standards.
We have a highly urbanised population and we need to ensure these emissions don’t jeopardise the health of those exposed to these emissions
Vehicle emissions also greatly contribute to our carbon emissions and hence to our impact on climate change

Please deliver strong fuel efficiency standards now that would make cleaner vehicles more available and affordable to more people in Australia and hit the accelerator on taking CO2 off our roads.

Make sure they take effect as soon as possible: mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.

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.

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.

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.

Please just get on with it!

I want fuel efficiency standards that:

Take effect as soon as possible, preferably mid-2024, to reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now;

Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, in line with limiting global warming to 1.5-degrees;

Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner;

Legislate mandatory standards for all manufacturers with no room for accounting tricks that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.

Let’s crack on with it! But let’s not just blindly replace ICE the EV. We should also consider additional forms of smart EV mobility including electric mopeds and motor scooters where these vehicle allow a substantially lower cost of entry than cars whilst reducing congestion in our cities.

Just recently, having been hospitalised for consequetive pneumothorax (collapsed lung) first right then left, and having had an upper lobe of the left lung removed during preventative surgery to avoid any future collapse of a lung,… I xan but wonder if it were not the air I have been breathing, as exhaled by fossil fuel burning vehicles and cooking equipment, if these facts of life in the 20th century are in fact killing me slowly with unsolicited pollutants, and if so, I am sure I am not the only one.

“Smoke” inhalation is bad fir the health at any time, but fume inhalation is probably worse.

For 20 years fuel efficiency of vehicles has been getting worse. Tax subsidies and a lack of efficiency standards has made us the dumping ground for polluting vehicles and has accelerated air pollution and CO2 emmisions. Even hybrid vehicles sold here have engines that only meet outdated Euro 5 standards. We should at least adopt European emmisions standards and make sure these standards ensure zero emmisions vehicles are the sensible choice in this country. Euro 6 standards need to be implemented immediately.
We also need to update of fuel quality standards which allow fuel to be sold with excessive pollutants like sulphur that can be seen in the skies of our cities
Thankyou

I strongly require the govt to introduce legislation or action to limit omissions from vehicles

Why do people buy such huge 4×4 gas-guzzlers and never take them off-road?

Strong fuel efficiency standards will prevent Australia from becoming the dumping ground of inefficient cars that companies can’t sell anywhere else, and cut air pollution, which has deadly health consequences for our communities. Let’s adopt strong standards now.

I want the Standard to:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Please deliver strong fuel efficiency standards to reduce the pollution produced by cars, trucks and utes in Australia.
This will prevent deaths from the fine particles and nitrogen dioxides that can lead to cancer, lung disease and heart disease.
Car emissions cause the world to heat up, which in turn hurts the environment and everything that lives in it.
The health of our planet is down to us, we determine what gets put into the atmosphere.