The Coalition government's newfound war on electric cars is very strange | Alex Turnbull

Rusted-on conservative seats are experiencing a boom thanks to demand for batteries, but where are their MPs?The Coalition government's recent 180-degree handbrake turn on electric vehicles is hard to comprehend on a number of levels.It isn't only that this position is the polar opposite of their position 12 months prior nor that it flies in the face of conservative policy priorities like fuel security that Senator Jim Molan has thundered about in recent years. By far and away the strangest thing about the Liberal and National parties' newfound war on electric cars is that it runs contrary to a long standing tradition of localism and representing the interests of regional seats' commercial and employment interests. Continue reading...