The Electric Highway – A Fuelish Policy
Viv Forbes
Australia
2021
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Slowly, without political plans or subsidies, diesel trucks and road trains replaced most drovers by providing a quicker service less dependent on the weather. And cities grew as food supplies improved and farm labourers got jobs in growing mining, processing and manufacturing industries.
Today’s politicians want to force an electric/hydrogen road revolution. They casually brush aside questions as to who will establish the charging-fuelling stations, who bears the cost of the subsidies and where the reliable energy will come from when diesel, gas and coal are heavily taxed and nuclear energy is banned.