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

We are increasing infrastructure costs, with all due respect. I take the interjection from the member for New England. We are actually increasing infrastructure costs. You can redress this by introducing ethanol. You could reduce our infrastructure costs by at least 40c a litre, maybe 60c a litre. I am not saying we are going to be able to get down to Brazil’s price of 74c but no doubt we will go very close to it. There is also an increased benefit when we produce it from grain. We get benefit out of sugar cane too, I must say. The member for Wide Bay is in the House. His government told us that you could not mix petrol with ethanol. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. I went to a seminar after that statement was made. A bloke said: ‘Yes, it’s very difficult to mix them! That’s ethanol, that’s petrol and you mix them.’ He poured one into the other and said, ‘Mixed.’ That was the first lie. The second lie was that it caused cancer. They dropped that one pretty quickly. The third lie was that it was going to break your motor—

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