Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia's self-sufficiency in oil throughout the last half-century saw it send, in 2001, under $1 billion to the Middle East. Australia now sends $23 billion. Since foreign oil pays only 6c tax, whereas Australian ethanol pays 40c, and since Minister Macfarlane is proposing a bowser tax of 40c, is the Prime Minister going to adopt the biofuels policy of the USA and Brazil, both nearing self-sufficiency, or the Minister for Industry's policy, which the NRMA report says will see the abolition of all Australian production in 15 years.

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