Uploaded on 2019-07-29 by Mark
1. Dominant fossil fuels used in your country? Coal, Gas and Oil are by far the biggest sources of fossil fuels 2. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? Australia is a geographically large country, with large distances in between towns and cities. Transport, including commercial, public and private, is a big consumer, as is electricity, but this is shifting rapidly to renewables. 3. At a national level we need a number of policies including a price on Carbon, a renewable energy target, a plan for transitioning to electric vehicles, and infrastructure spending that incorporates charging networks, an upgraded power grid, and more storage (including private, and subsidising networked private storage infrastructure. At state and local level – we need to transform our public transport to enable more interconnectivity (so people can cycle to buses and trains and either store them for the return journey, or take them with them), we need to go electric, and we need to make these smart transportation networks (with dynamic timetabling so people can better plan and find it easier and faster to get from point A to point B), and we need the infrastructure to