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Should banning petrol cars and going electric be Australia’s next light bulb moment? – ABC News
Australians usually embrace the future. At times we’ve been ahead of it. Could no new sales of internal combustion cars by 2035 be our next challenge, asks Peter…
In 2007, Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking.
The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind so energy inefficient they lost most of it as heat.
“A normal light bulb is too hot to hold that heat is wasted, and globally represents millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide that needn’t have been emitted,” he explained.
From February 2009 it became illegal to import the traditional pear-shaped globes, while from November that year it became illegal to sell them.
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