Alan Kohler has rubbished calls to reduce the fuel excise in response to rising petrol prices, claiming it would be equivalent to cutting carbon taxes:
Petrol excise is Australia’s de facto carbon tax… It’s already one of the lowest gasoline taxes in the world…
Australians still enjoy fairly low petrol prices – in most European countries they are 30 per cent higher than here, although in the US they are 30 per cent lower.
