As details for Australia’s looming carbon pricing scheme emerge, it is clear that most Australian businesses will be impacted either directly through carbon tax or permit cost liabilities, or indirectly through higher input costs such as energy and raw materials. Carbon pricing is likely to...
While the nature of forecasts rely on a number of assumptions in terms of the future cost of competing fuels and advances in both vehicle and fuel production technology, it is clear that a higher carbon price will support alternative fuels significantly in the future. What is uncertain is the...
A carbon tax could eliminate the fuel tax credit by 2020
The latest announcement from the Australian Government indicates that the trucking industry will be exempt for two years when the carbon tax begins on 1 July 2012. However, from July 2014 a fixed carbon cost of $25.40 per tonne will be...
At first glance, the introduction of a carbon price ensures that the most carbon intensive fuels will incur the highest penalty on a per litre basis, but Rare Consulting can reveal that given the relative efficiencies of different fuels and engine technologies, the introduction of a carbon tax will...
Recent feedback from transport operators to the Department of Energy, Resources and Tourism (DRET) has revealed some disillusionment with the EEO (Energy Efficiency Opportunities) program. The results of the EEO Program Mid Cycle Review, published in December 2010, suggested that for many...