Let's take pollution off our roads

Australia’s transport pollution is erupting into our second biggest source of climate pollution. Majority of this is from cars, utes and trucks’ exhausts. Australia needs to introduce, with a sense of intense urgency, Fuel Efficiency Standards to limit the carbon dioxide from new vehicles. Norway (86%) and Sweden lead the way in global fuel efficiency standards. To our shame Australia along with Russia, are the only developed countries without them.
New cars sold in Australia should have from 2035 zero emissions bring that in line limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
Legislate the standards, ensure they are mandatory for all manufacturers which will put an end to stop accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. which then bypasses the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Vehicle exhausts assist to increase climate pollution and other pollutants like fine particles and nitrogen oxides. These pollutants can lead to an increase in health risks including lung and heart disease, cancer and a potential increase in premature deaths.
Australia needs to act now, not wait until we are in a total crisis and wondering how we fix an unfixable situation?

Please legislate for fuel emissions reduction. Thanks

Apart from mandating a fuel standard for new vehicles we need to educate current road users in the many wasteful practices that are displayed constantly on todays roads. Unnecessary idling must be a starting point….

We need more EVs – cheaper than they are now. Legislate for much lower emissions, forcing manufacturers to abandon fossil fuelled machines.

Please improve our fuel efficiency standards without further delay. It really is an embarrassment to have such low standards. The health of all Aussies have to be considered and let’s get more CO2 out of the roads and out of the atmosphere now.

Strong fuel efficiency standards need to take effect as soon as possible and they need to be tough on pollution.

Australia is lagging badly in the uptake of EVs. We no longer produce cars and unless we mandate fuel efficiency standards manufacturers will offload vehicles that become unable to meet standards in their own countries onto the Australian market.
The jokes used to be about Americans loving their gas guzzlers but now the joke is on us.
We need to implement stringent emissions targets now.
We don’t have to protect our own manufacturers so mandates are pain free. The fact that nearly every other country has their own restrictions already indicates that there will be no International backlash and little if any sympathy for manufacturers dumping non-compliant stock on Australia.

Australia needs to legislate to ensure we reach zero emissions in all new cars by 2035. We need to do this in order to meet our greenhouse reduction targets. This is a no brainer. C’mon Australia!

Strong fuel efficiency standards are required now. Components of these standards should include:
(1) Be stringent and rapid with significant emission standards implemented now, then all new vehicles to be zero emissions by 2030.
(2) Strong policy and government support to facilitate uptake (esp. affordability) of zero emission vehicles and provide the infrastructure to expedite the transition.
3) Rigorous without loopholes to ensure actual emission reductions.

We need to stop lagging behind. Our health and planet can’t wait any longer. The government have a duty of care to implement strong fuel efficiency standards NOW!

It is not surprising that Australia’s vehicle fleet is the second biggest source of climate pollution, given the peak hour gridlock in our largest cities. It is also not surprising that this unchecked vehicle pollution is causing premature deaths from lung and heart disease and cancer. Australia has become a dumping ground for the most polluting vehicles on the planet. Strong emissions standards must be applied to new car sales to turn this around. Then manufacturers would increase the range of affordable electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia, and a second hand market for EVs would develop. Legislation must be enacted now, ensuring that by 2035 all new cars must have zero emissions. A drastic reduction to Australia’s greenhouse emissions will not happen while our vehicle fleet is outdated and polluting.

Introduce strong fuel efficiency standards ASAP

It’s time to clean up the air in our cities and reduce the health damage to people who are forced to live close to busy roads.

Please do something about transport pollution on our roads! Stop paying lip service to climate mitigation AND GET SERIOUS!!

Aus is overdue for fuel efficiency standards – they need to be enacted asap. All new cars to have zero emissions by 2035 or earlier. This will also create a 2nd hand market for low emission vehicles. Legislation the standards so they are mandatory and vigorous and do not allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
it is time to act now! Surely this is essential for our well being and that of the living planet!

I have never been able to understand how a wealthy and resourceful country like Australia could be so far behind when it comes to cleaner cars. We should be leading the way… there’s so much appetite for electric vehicles, but no support from the government to make them accessible. There are way too many subsidies pointing in the wrong direction.

We have been looking and checking for years now for our next car – an electric car. Unfortunately the previous government did very little, if any towards the supply in Australia. The current government should give more incentives and also stop the import of petrol or diesel cars!
There are still far too many petrol/diesel cars for sale without the import of more. The planet is not getting colder and it’s time to take it seriously!

I am keen for the current government to make significant changes to reduce emissions from vehicles. This is vital for both health and environmental reasons.
Regards,
Sue Day

It is illogical that the Labor Government wants to meet 43% emissions reductions by 2050 without meaningful fuel efficiency standards. Australia and Russia are the outliers in this and it is time we joined the majority of nations in implementing these standards -ASAP. The rest of the world is enjoying a much faster uptake of renewable-powered electric vehicles (EVs) whilst Australia becomes the dumping ground for fossil fuelled polluting vehicles. Legislation is needed Now.

Australia is lagging behind in fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. I urge the government to legislate strict 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. I also urge the government to subsidies EV vehicle to make them more affordable and increase the availability of charging stations.
We are a wealthy country and should lead the way in emission reduction from transport,

Without strong emissions standards Australia is the fertile ground that nurtures the combined idiocy of the oil and automotive industry.

The immediate implementation of strict, European style and mandatory, emission rules for all new cars sold in Australia is essential if Australia is to have any chance of reaching zero emissions from 2035 and do our part in limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.

We are facing a climate crisis, and my grandchildren’s future is at risk. We Australians must do our bit to mitigate the emergency we face. Being an emergency, the time for procrastination is over.
A strong fuel efficiency standard will cause a significant reduction in transport emissions – our second biggest source of climate pollution. Bringing more electric vehicles onto the market will lead to a supply of more affordable second-hand EVs, which will increase our rate of pollution reduction.
Our grandchildren need this.

Strong emission standards have been a proven way of ensuring availability of electric cars in many so far more progressive countries. We need to do the same and implement this as soon as possible. Australia’s unique problem of large distances between population centres hi lights the imperative of active government input to make electrification of our road transport possible.
Railways between states could also get assistance to electrify and more effort to get transport from road train to rail.
New manufacturing industries could be supported to produce electric “Winnebago” type vehicles by helping current caravan manufacturers to fill a new market. This would help to replace the vast number of car and caravan combinations currently moving around the country and pollution caused.
Fast charging at fuel stations are needed to make electric travel possible and government must be involved in the transition from the beginning not making remedial effort later as is so often the case.
The government must be forthright and drive this change (which will be disruptive) but with regard to the industries that will be impacted and be ready with support them through the transition to the new economy.
The downside of change is that the natural environment can be negatively impacted as land is cleared for wind farms as has happened in Queensland or dug up for lithium mining as proposed around Perth impacting 3 species of black cockatoo.
This is a huge transition that could launch Australia to the forefront in the world of sustainable development or become mired in inefficiency and resentment. It will not be cheap and is complicated and multifaceted but it is essential and achievable and I am confident that the current government is capable of setting the trajectory to achieve this in the coming decade.

Climate change is a threat to all life on Earth.
Transport is a a growing part of Australia’s emissions. Our emission standards are currently far too lenient, which means we are a dumping ground for inefficient vehicles.

Australia needs strict and rigorous emission standards as soon as possible in 2024. They must apply to all manufacturers with no accounting tricks which would limit real emissions reductions.

All new cars need to have zero emissions by 2035 at the latest. As the numbers of EVs increase the secondhand market will grow making them more affordable for all. The air quality will also improve giving health benefits too.

It is way beyond time to bring Australia’s fuel efficiency standards up to international levels. For too long we have been the dumping ground for inefficient cars that cannot be sold in most parts of the world.

This represents a shameful track record for Australia in regards to curbing vehicle green house gas emissions. Put our emissions from vehicles into reverse, NOW!

How long do you want to live on our earth??? Use your brain now as long as you still can use it.

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.

It’s shameful Australia is so far behind the rest of the planet on this. I’m on the road a lot for a work and the amount of diesel fumes pouring out of trucks, utes and 4WDs is absolutely sickening. Let’s get these EVs happening now!

There needs to be immediate action!!
There are more cars on our roads than ever before and developing strong fuel efficiency stands is imperative.
These standards need to be created within 12 months (mid 2024).
All new cars must have zero emissions by 2035, when sold in Australia. This ensures the target of limiting global heating to a 1.5° rise.
This in turn will have a flow on effect with the used car market as these vehicles need to be affordable for all.
Finally, legislature needs to be created to support these standards and they need to be mandatory for all manufacturers to sell new cars in Australia .
This means no loopholes, no side deals such as offset emissions and no creative accounting.