Vehicle emissions standard policies shouldn’t ‘impact cost of living’: Dai Le

Independent MP Dai Le has called for vehicle emissions standard policies which don’t “impact the cost of living” and allow Australians to “carry on and work and look after their families”. On Monday, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen claimed there would be no purchase price impact on vehicles under the proposed vehicle emissions efficiency standards changes, despite the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industry estimate that it could cost $38 billion over five years. “The majority of voters are just working; the majority of voters are using petrol-fuelled cars to drive to work,” Ms Le told Sky News Australia. “At the moment, from my perspective, whatever policies we do, we need to ensure that it doesn’t impact the cost of living for the majority of working Australians, and it’s great to have the fuel efficiency bill, but how does it flow down to ordinary working Australians. “We’re all for the environment … but how do we make sure that people can also carry on and work and look after their families.”