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PETITION: Stop filling BHP's tank: Cap the diesel handout (www.getup.org.au)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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If you're fed up with the handouts to fossil fuel corps you may be interested in saying so to the govt via this GetUp petititon.

Stop filling BHP's tank: Cap the diesel handout

Newly leaked documents reveal just how much BHP has been hiding – and how dependent they are on taxpayer money to keep their climate-wrecking mines running.

It's not just that BHP pockets $622 million a year in government diesel handouts. Their own internal memos show they're counting on it – it's the reason they've abandoned their climate commitments.

And while BHP guzzles subsidised diesel, truckies, tradies, farmers and families are copping price rises and being told to brace for rationing.

Sign now to call on the Albanese Government to cap the Fuel Tax Credit at $50 million per company per year – and stop BHP ditching its climate plans on the public's dime.

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[–] [S] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There's no way the govt would scrap the diesel subsidy. GetUp knows that and to remain credible and get a broader % of the population engaged, campaigning for capping is more sensible and likely to attract more 'centrist' members of the community.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    This is fair. I suppose I am perhaps a little tired of centrist politics, considering [gestures broadly].

    I just don't think it should be considered radical to want to not subsidise private, for profit companies.

    And if we must, it had better be in the form of an investment the community then profits from directly. Not just free money.

    Private companies are not necessary whatsoever in so many facets of our economy, and resource extraction definitely is one of those, so I don't really see what the arguments are for giving tax payer money to mining companies. If they get to profit, they gotta pay their way.

    Centrist politics shifts the goalposts in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

    It's time for people to actually demand something better, instead of more of the same - just maybe slightly a tiny bit better pretty please.

    I've ranted long enough now to convince myself that I find GetUp annoying haha, despite them doing some good work.

    It's not sensible to campaign for lowering the subsidy, in my opinion. The compromise from zero could be less than the compromise that they may or may not win from what they're currently asking for.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I just don’t think it should be considered radical to want to not subsidise private, for profit companies.

    Agreed, but Australia is a conservative capitalist country, in general.

    And, our governments are all beholden to big donations from the fossil fuel corps. This is the way the system works and many, including many working class people, are seduced by ON which is even more pro fossil fuel companies. Anyway, even if more people just become more aware about what is happening it's a small positive. The whole situation is beyond the pale.

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