Most local government areas in Australia are starved of money to provide basic resources. While we give…

Most local government areas in Australia are starved of money to provide basic resources. While we give hundreds of billions in tax cuts, and to buy the US a missile delivery platform in the Indo-Pacific. Those lunacies aside, a thought experiment. /1

The average vehicle in Australia is costing about $5000 a year to fill with fuel right now. Do some rough sums on vehicle numbers in your postcode. Multiply by that $5000 figure. You should be talking tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, per year. /2

Imagine that money retained in the community, every year. What else it could do, if not sent offshore to oil suppliers. The electrification of our lives joins a lot of dots that currently look disconnected. 3/3