DREYFUS’ MILLION TONNES OF CONFUSION ON CASH FOR CLUNKERS
14-December-2010
Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change Mark Dreyfus has added his name to the swelling list of Labor frontbenchers who don’t have a clue about their party’s Cash for Clunkers policy.
While being questioned today about revelations from the Department of Industry about the unravelling scheme, Mr Dreyfus stated that cars were responsible for only 40 tonnes of carbon emissions every year in Australia.
This will come as news to the authors of his own Department’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory – a publication which suggests that Mr Dreyfus was miscalculating that number by a factor of at least one million.
It is also at complete odds with Julia Gillard’s own policy statement about the $429 million scheme, which specifically says that it will be responsible for cutting one million tonnes over a decade.
Mr Dreyfus’ confusion is just the latest form of humiliation for Labor on this shameful policy idea.
It follows a string of contradictions and errors in statements about the program from Ms Gillard, Kim Carr, Greg Combet and Peter Garrett.
Ms Gillard and Mr Carr should end the agony, and take the obvious step of abolishing Cash for Clunkers immediately.