In the interests of free speech, i respect your right to comment. However, i am somewhat perplexed by your fixation with Australia. This car and its pricing is going to follow the pricing rules shared by all vehicles in this market. I mean even the humble Yaris is at least 30% dearer than in the USA. I am sure that people of influence in every democratic country will be able to move a situation to suit themselves. Look at what is happening with the dealer lobby in the USA, and that is supposed to be the epicentre of capitalism!!
I think that he was referring to Tony Abbots comment that climate change is crap, and Joe Hockey calling wind power a blight on the landscape. This illustrates the magnitude of the problem we need to overcome with our fossil fuel and mining aligned current government, who it appears will do anything to distance themselves from anything 'green'.
We need to demonstrate that there is voter sentiment for promoting this technology, and also that there are economic benefits in doing so. I know that Dborn & I live in extremely safe liberal seats, so it is important for us to talk to our MPs right now. I also know that we both have.
Remember that you local MP cannot really deny you a meeting as a constituent. Even if you don't have the same power as Packer, Ginehart and Murdoch you have an opportunity to unsettle them if you have what will be a popular and pragmatic arguement. The more marginal your seat is the more leverage you have. I don't belong to any political persuasion, and make my arguements and decisions independently.
That being said, I have had letters read into Hansard by providing a decent arguement. If you want something to change, don't just grumble under your breath. Do something about it.
P.S. The Australian pricing by the car companies is outrageous and unsupportable. Part of the problem has been that premium brands don't really want to devalue the current market and kill residual values, while others are happy to sell a few cars at maximum profit. The Porsche Cayenne is 3x the US price here, and before anyone says 'market size' it is 2x the price of one in Zambia.
We need a car company to set their prices based on the current exchange rate, and vary them up and down within reason around it. Remember in 2002 the dollar went to $US0.46 under Howard? The prices haven't really come down since then for luxury cars compared with overseas trends. That being said, in 1990 someone bought my 928 from Scuds for $236,000 plus on road costs... In the same year I paid $160,000 for my house!