Aint gonna happen as long as Labor maintains the fuel tax rebate for Rhineheart Enterprises. And Labor gives our natural resources to american corporations for free. David Pocock on ABC Radio last week said we get more in tax from beer excise than we do from taxing our resources as they get shipped overseas. That is an absolute number, not a percentage.

When we were forced to replace our 2010 Holden Cruze, we discussed at length if we should go EV or HEV.

The single biggest hurdle was that with an EV we could not drive from Perth to Dunsborough without multiple recharge delays, let alone Perth to Geraldton.

We went with a HEV and our city driving fuel consumption is less than 4 L per 100 km. The fuel tank capacity is about half what the Cruze has and the fuel consumption about a third.

We figured that if we need to replace this, we’d revisit the EV vs HEV decision, but I see little evidence that long distance driving in Western Australia is catered for in the current network or vehicle offerings.

I am not convinced that the push to EV will happen until there’s significant changes to these issues and with it, political interest, from politicians, not the general public, to actually embrace renewable resources, rather than continually push fossil fuel projects like they’re currently doing.