Peter Dutton’s announcement today is that a Coalition government would abolish the fuel efficiency standards Labor introduced, because it makes those big utes the Coalition is obsessed with too expensive.
When you’re all about big utes, and not big ideas, than this is the sort of policy you get.

It took Australia so long to adopt fuel efficiency standards (the Coalition made an attempt when Paul Fletcher was a minister, but very quickly shelved it because – big utes) that our passenger vehicles emit at least 50% more CO2 than the global average. Yay us! Winning! And even though the fuel efficiency standards Labor passed are weaker than they should have been, (you’ll be shocked to know that the standards changed after consultation with the car industry) the Coalition still hates them because they make the big, giant utes they have formed their entire personality around, more expensive.

The whole idea of a fuel efficiency standard is the more fuel efficient your car is, the cheaper it is. So it’s an incentive to buy more fuel efficient cars. Which you think that the Coalition would want given it has identified fuel costs as one of the major imposts on the cost of living and is offering a one year fuel excise cut of 25c a litre as a result.

But apparently, it makes sense to cut the revenue that government makes from petrol for a year to help with the cost of living, but not to encourage people to buy more fuel efficient cars, which will help break their dependence on fuel and also lower emissions.

Got it. Big utes for all, while wallets and the planet, burns.