Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I think we should probably be grateful that the opposition now realises that such a thing as an electric ute exists, given the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was a ute denier not that long ago—a ute denier! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said there is no such thing as an electric ute not that long ago, and now they are saying they're expensive.

Yes, it is the case that different models have different costs. Of course that is the case, but it is also the case that rigorous analysis of our policies, released in the impact statement by the minister for transport and me, showed $140 billion in benefits to all Australians out to 2050, $12 billion in fuel savings for motorists by 2030, $108 billion dollars in fuel savings by 2050—

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