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Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Similar level to "improve housing availability by freezing housing standards". Hurts the same people it purports to help.
Yeah but also nah.
The relaxed standards will cause more emissions and may reduce longevity of a vehicle.
The question is how much of each will occur, which I think is unknowable?
We do know - none. These new emission laws only came in a few months ago, so we’re just going back to what we were 4 months ago.
If the new laws weren't going to reduce emissions, why were they introduced?
More so we know it doesn’t impact longevity of cars. Emissions have only been lowered for a few months, going back for a while won’t hurt if it helps people afford petrol.
Amazing.
You disagree?
No, I agree with you. We are in agreement regarding the least interesting thing anyone ever agreed on.
I replied to the upstream comment without realising that we're just going back to the rules we had 3 months ago.
Again, for clarity, there is no disagreement here.