Public consultation ‘overwhelmingly’ supports fuel efficiency standard for cars, Labor says

Chris Bowen says the standard is needed to improve access to cleaner, cheaper-to-run cars in Australia

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The Albanese government's promise to introduce a fuel efficiency standard for cars has been overwhelmingly" supported by a public consultation process, Labor says.

However, supporters of the standard are now worried opponents will lobby the government to include provisions that will enable some emissions from petrol-reliant cars to be obscured from calculations.

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