The Gold Coast Bulletin

INTERESTIN­G

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point for those Bill Shorten and Labor Party followers who see them as the banner carrier of so-called climate change and their charge towards electric cars.

Not one of the leading lights in Labor own or drive an electric car.

Tanya Plibersek, who is the flag bearer of Bill Shorten’s Labor Party “climate change” policy, was asked last week on the radio why is it OK for her to drive a Ford Territory, which is among the worst carbon dioxide emitters on the market.

At 286g of CO2 per kilometre it is well above the 105g CO2 cap Labor wants to implement on the vehicle manufactur­ing industry before their car tax is implemente­d. One in 25 cars achieve this now. Her answer – “I have three kids.”

Hypocrisy at its highest.

DARRYLE KNOWLES, MAIN BEACH

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