🟢Given that Woolworths boasts a $50 billion market capitalisation and raked in $1.38 billion in profit last year, why is Blackout Bowen handing this corporate giant $22 million of taxpayers’ money for 148 electric trucks — roughly $150,000 per vehicle?
🟢If these trucks are supposedly so advanced and commercially superior, why do they need a massive taxpayer subsidy at all?
The answer is obvious: they’re not commercially viable without it.These T5 Battery Electric Trucks carry a sticker price of $153,395. That means Woolworths is getting brand-new trucks essentially for free, paid for by Australian taxpayers and their small-business competitors who are being forced to subsidise their own destruction.
🟢Why is $22 million of Australian taxpayers’ money being funnelled (or should we say laundered) through a foreign corporation headquartered in the UK so it can ultimately buy Chinese-made trucks to lease to Woolworths ?
🟢Imagine the army of middlemen, consultants, grifters and political fixers all clipping the ticket on this one taxpayer funded deal.
🟢If the handout per truck is $150,000 and list price of the trucks is ($153,395) why not just try and get a discount to buy 148 of them, and hand the free trucks to Woolworths ?
🟢Is it because there’s are army of grifters and spivs that need to get a cut of this rort ?
🟢Why is the ACCC allowing Woolworths to lie that these trucks deliver a “greener delivery”?
In New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland they will be charged overnight on coal-fired power, and the enormous CO₂ emissions generated during their manufacture will never be offset by any supposed operational “savings.”
🟢How does the head of Bowen’s CEFC get away with claiming “This investment reflects commercial viability” when a $150,000 price tag for a small 2-tonne truck proves the exact opposite?
It is only “viable” because taxpayers are being forced to cover the huge difference.
🟢While Australians are being crushed by the cost of living, housing shortages and failing infrastructure, why is the Albanese regimes priority is to gift free trucks to a company already swimming in profit ?
It is grotesque.
🟢What about Woolworths’ small-business competitors?
Their taxes are being used to bankroll the very corporation that is trying to drive them out of business.
🟢Does Bowen and Labor really hate Australian small businesses that much — is it simply because Woolworths’ heavily unionised workforce funnels money into Labor’s coffers while small businesses do not?
🟢And why won’t the media call this out for the blatant rort, the giant boondoggle and the textbook case of crony capitalism that it is?
🟢Is it because they’re dependent on Woolworths’ advertising dollars, or because the ABC is too busy running political protection for the Albanese regime?
🟢And where is anyone from the Liberal Party calling it out ? Or are they all hiding under their desks. Again ?
🟠Thank God One Nation has a policy to scrap Net Zero. That would finally mean cleaning out and shutting down the CEFC and ending this kind of corporate welfare scam once and for all.
🔴Alternatively, if you want your tax dollars to be handed to Woolworths to provide them with free trucks - keep voting Labor for more of the same. 🤯