Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The point I am getting at—and everybody is obviously flummoxed as to where on earth I am heading—is this: the real issue is the terminology, that is, what you call standard diesel. Standard diesel is a completely interlocking product—it does exactly the same whether it is five per cent mineral diesel or 100 per cent organic diesel. You do not have to change any of the components of the engine. If we were to say that standard diesel could be up to 49 per cent organic diesel then, following the rule of what is happening with five per cent organic diesel, we would be back in the exact situation which we are now legislating against. The issue is just what has determined the standard. I suggest there has been some strong lobbying by the major oil companies to determine what that standard is. In essence, they are still getting a form of double dipping.