Government fuel crackdown could save motorists $519 a year but increase cost of new vehicles

(Understanding climate change, changing our behaviour and mitigating the effects of what we do is not going to the easy, nor is it going to be cheap – Robert McLean)

Petrol bills could fall but the cost of
new cars could climb under any
tightening of Australia's fuel standards. 

New cars could cost up to $2000 more under new environmental standards being considered by the Turnbull government, but motorists could save more than $500 a year on their petrol bills.

The proposed new fuel efficiency standards - which would require manufacturers to sell cars, trucks and buses with more efficient engines - would also help Australia meet its Paris climate-change commitments by keeping some 65 million tonnes of pollution out of the atmosphere.

Read James Massola’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Government fuel crackdown could save motorists $519 a year but increase cost of new vehicles.”