Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I ask the people in this place: are you really proud that we import all of our petrol and diesel? I hope that we crossbenchers will bury our differences and work together to move a ban on the export of oil from Australia. Twenty-seven per cent of our diesel and petrol needs can be met from our own indigenous oil. It's disgraceful that we import our oil. So we're going to ban it. As to whether this mob or that mob want to come on side doesn't matter—you can face the people. Waste from all of our major population centres is to be transformed into diesel, so 30 per cent of our diesel requirements will be met there, with 27 per cent in the first run. All government cars in metropolitan areas will be electric, made in Australia by Australian companies, along with their batteries, similarly.

Finally, renewables are to provide around 40 per cent of our requirements—the same as in Brazil, and 15 per cent in America. Algae, ethanol and numerous other renewables can be put into that blend. We are not talking about 2050. We are talking about doing something good for our country now and having something that the Australian people will own. (Time expired)