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Haha good idea I actually saw a movie along those lines..of course we know this will never happen. :) There is nothing altruistic about our politicians (apart from a select few) they are all self serving ego maniacs who now believe we are answerable to them.

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I shudder as the red/green plot to swing us all onto renewables [unproven, unreliable, nonexistant distribution infrastructure] will inevitably result in fire pits to cook, clogged roads,, frozen pensioners and perspiring Gen Xer's forfeiting their gym memberships and Bali holidays. Oh and did I mention warm beer? Beer drinkers of Australia unite! An ossie icon is almost extinct, thanks to Bowen ALBO [B]Rant. Comrades they have left the room and our headspace!

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Chris Bowen is a flog. Pure and simple. All these habitial shaft strokers have skin in the game with all this bull over net zero and climate change! They all want us to own nothing and 'be happy'. The only people who will be happy are Chris and his green nazi mates. Mr Newclair has no idea! Australia and the western world is royally trucked the way these idiots are 'leading' us. I'd never get an electric car.

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Electric cars will not be going far when the coal and gas are turned off.

Look at the cold and chaos in Europe. People in Scotland told they will not have electricity for the next week and the temperature is minus 17 Celsius .

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I am with you. I believe hydrogen powered vehicles produce just water vapour!

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Just reinforces my previous comments about the importance of praying for all in authority......1tim 2:1

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Not if it means ‘road(side) rage’ like we’re seeing in the UK where EV owners are banked up waiting to use charging stations!!!

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There are medical problems with charging and driving EVs.

https://www.saferemr.com/2014/07/shouldnt-hybrid-and-electric-cars-be-re.html

The idea of free fuel from your solar system (during the day, not at night!) is appealing for those of us not on Chris' salary range, but do we really want to get cancer from driving an EV?

I guess it will get covered up like it was with the tobacco companies.

Pharma loves cancer as a big money pot for them and their drugs, etc. and since smoker numbers have dropped they have been using 5G and the bioweapons shots to give them more patients, but now if they can get people driving these cancer causing cars they will make squillions.

He may also need to watch a couple of YouTube videos that show how CO2 is not causing climate change and renewables are not saving any emissions before they become landfill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1zUW4uOSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

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Just wondering also about health risks posed by the generation of ozone by the electrical motors.

Apparently ozone in small quantities can be quite beneficial to our health, but as it increases can be quite toxic.

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It takes lightning strikes to cause ozone to be produced and I don't think the EVs have that sort of static electricity. They mainly run on DC with high amps to produce EMR from the current in the wires.

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I understand lightning produces ozone, but you can also buy ozone generators.

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Also the arcing that takes place in an electric motor (mini-lightning if you like) when the brushes pass the actuator produce ozone.

I have since noted that there are brushless electric motors that do not produce ozone, so I guess I have answered my own question!

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There is nothing left to say after I have read all the comments here.

I can only add that this clown is still looking for his own Big Top to star in. Stupid, stupid man.

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As Michael, Rafe and others have highlighted, a significant amount of Co2 is generated in manufacturing as well as typically in operating an EV, yet the ignorance of the green left allows them to ignore this.

Meanwhile, although the financial costs of purchasing the car and upgrading the electricity capacity in your home are clearly not issues for those living on the taxpayer, what about the rest of society?

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Yes! A freebie would look lovely under my Christmas tree! Although that’s probably where it would stay.

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oh and Ps Chris Browne if you visit this page... You and all your cronies are a pack of left wing wankers.

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So this car was bought by the taxpayer, so I guess now all the other Politicians will follow suit. Does this mean we the taxpayer are allowed to borrow them seeing as how we paid for them? Yea I really what to drive a car that used small children to extract something from the bowels of the earth to make it run. I wouldn't own one of these even they dropped in price to $15,000.

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Hey what a great idea Sarah..... an EV Uber scheme for the masses or homeless. See a car with government plates and drive off. Fit trakkers and they would be easy to locate. A small inconvenience for a dedicated polly with the interests of all Australians at heart.

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I’ll stick to my car. I want people to hear me coming.

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Indeed!!!!!

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I hope he keeps it for at least 10 years so that he can work of the environmental cost to build that coal charged car compared to a conventional ICE vehicle...

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James I love this guy, he tickles me, he is a lunatic from hell. On this nonsense I have just had to let my local Council that their assertion, in building reports on properties, about the IPCC RCP at 8.5 has been found to be completely wrong. The RCP which at 8.5 was apparently catastrophic has now been downgraded by same IPCC to 2.5 which is hardly concerning but no one has been told as these communists and their media want the people to stay in a fog of worry for ever. So you can stick your Tesla where the sun don't shine, Elon and his mates and their communist cohorts wanting to run the world can convolute their way up their own backsides and don't park your bloody Tesla at my place or I'll tow it away to the dump with my diesel ute.

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