Australia's Rudd buys into Toyota's hybrids
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... for the automotive industry also said the subsidy was a mistake. "You can already buy green cars," John Metcalfe, director of the Australian Automobile Association, said. "The anomaly of tariffs on four-wheel-drives at 5 per cent compared to tariffs of 10 per cent on imported passenger vehicles has not helped either."Almost a quarter of new car registrations are petrol-thirsty four-wheel-drives....
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