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How is public transport in Australia going to handle carbon tax?

As a person who uses public transport everyday. i am worryed about ticket pricing once this tax gets passed. Will it be more expensive? beacuse its already expensive enough when you think about it. Do you think that transport companys will get exempted from this or will they get hit and we will have to pay the price.

Public Comments

1. If the tax is applied even-handedly you have problems. Public transport (outside the rush hour) runs at a ridiculously low load factor. You see 9-ton buses with only two or three passengers - sometimes none. I saw a 300-ton train pull out the other day with a lone passenger aboard - and she was obviously young enough to travel on a child's ticket. You think single-occupant cars are wasteful? Try doing the sums for a single-occupant train! All that carbon tax has to be paid for somehow, The bus/train company will not want to stump up. The extra will have to go on the price of a ticket. It's all part of the law of unintended consequences.
2. it would hit private transport , public transport be exempt
3. You,as a traveler or tax payer,probably both, will foot the bill. As usual .
4. You would think that they would make public transport and mass transit systems exempt and instead cross subsidise it from extra funds that they gain from taxing private vehicles.