The electric highway – a fuelish policy

Electric/hydrogen cars should reduce suburban noise and improve city air quality but users should fund their own recharging centres and insurance, and all road users should contribute fairly to the costs of road building and maintenance.

However, a political rush-job to abandon coal and petroleum fuels, together with all their engines, generators and supply chains would be a mammoth and high-risk undertaking. To combine this with the task of planning, funding and building a new transport network based on intermittent green energy, electric engines, batteries and hydrogen is just green fantasy.

This LNP dreamtime electric/hydrogen highway is destined to become the largest ever green flop in our net-zero era. Its foolishness and waste will far exceed the colonial rail gauge mess, the subsidised wind/solar mania and the ALP pink batts scheme.

And if the ALP/Green Coalition wins the next election, this energy/transport disaster will visit us sooner.