{"id":5832,"date":"2019-08-06T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:12","slug":"acccs-sloppy-logic-on-electric-vehicles-fails-to-consider-health-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/acccs-sloppy-logic-on-electric-vehicles-fails-to-consider-health-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCC&#8217;s sloppy logic on electric vehicles fails to consider health costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5832\" class=\"elementor elementor-5832\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-901ed42 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"901ed42\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43dabb1\" data-id=\"43dabb1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6610d6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6610d6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-12888\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-413249b9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"413249b9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-673b02c0\" data-id=\"673b02c0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-224d86dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"224d86dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe ACCC&#8217;s claim that pollution-emitting vehicles are unfairly subsidising zero-emission vehicles completely overlooks the enormous health cost to the taxpayer caused by combustion engine vehicles, the Electric Vehicle Council has noted today.\n\nReferring to the fuel excise, ACCC chair Rod Sims is reported as posing the question: \u201cWhy should [electric vehicle drivers] have an advantage over people driving petrol cars?\u201d\n\nYet new research released this year found emissions from combustion engine vehicles in the Sydney-Newcastle-Wollongong area alone created $3 billion in health costs. Electric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari said given this reality, Mr Sims\u2019s question should be reversed.\n\n\u201cFar from getting an unfair advantage, electric vehicle drivers should be asking why they don\u2019t derive any reward for saving the taxpayer thousands on health costs each year,\u201d Mr Jafari said.\n\nThe latest research indicates electric vehicles shave health costs per vehicle by $2,400. Last year, 1224 Australians lost their lives due to vehicle accidents, but 1715 died as a direct result of vehicle pollution.\n\n&#8220;Mr Simms&#8217;s argument about impacts and burdens might hold some weight if he\u2019d considered the full range of relevant factors,\u201d Mr Jafari said.\n\n\u201cAs things stand, his argument is like claiming smokers unfairly subsidise the health system because of all the tax they pay on cigarettes.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt a mass transition to electric vehicles will require long-term reform in the way governments collect revenue for roads. But as things stand the minority of drivers who are making the switch to EVs are doing vastly more good than harm to the economy and the public good.\n\n\u201cWe would encourage Mr Simms to update his thinking, and his lines, when it comes to this important issue.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACCC&#8217;s claim that pollution-emitting vehicles are unfairly subsidising zero-emission vehicles completely overlooks the enormous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}