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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

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For the first three years, the carbon price will be fixed, before moving to an emissions trading scheme in 2015. From 1 July 2015, the carbon price will be set by the market. The first Australian Government to announce a plan for a carbon price was John Howard’s back in 2007. a year in real terms. —Prime Minister Gillard.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads.