An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers
An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers
Note: The below letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on May 10, 2021. MEI s Senior Vice President Gerald Feierstein, Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security General (ret.) Joseph Votel, and MEI Afghanistan and Pakistan Program Director Marvin G. Weinbaum are among the signatories.
We are a group of former diplomats, military officers, and civil servants. Many of us have helped manage and support U.S. engagement with Afghanistan over the past twenty years. We are writing to you today to add our voices to the many Americans who have already expressed concern, both publicly and privately, about the fate of the many thousands of Afghans
Victorian Government Criticized for Confusing Electric Vehicles Policies It s like turning on the air conditioner and the heater all at once. It just makes no sense
The Victorian Labor Government has pledged that $46 million (US$36 million) will go to grants encouraging Victorians to purchase zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs).
The funding is part of the Victorian Government’s emissions reduction strategy, which seeks to halve emissions (from 2005 levels) by 2030, aiming for 50 percent of all new vehicle sales by 2030 to be ZEVs.
This is in spite of an announcement by the government in March proposing a new tax on ZEVs expected to raise $30 million over four years leading both sides of the political divide to accuse the government of simply trying to appeal to environmental criticisms without enacting meaningful legislation.
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The Australian Industry Group (AIG) has called for a moratorium on the electric vehicle (EV) taxes that are set to be imposed in Victoria on July 1, asserting that the extra taxes will be detrimental to the future of EVs in Australia.
AIG CEO is not happy about the Victorian EV taxes
AIG chief executive
Innes Willox has slammed the proposal, suggesting the new taxes were like “putting the cart before the horse and should not be implemented until clean vehicles are better established and the taxes are better designed.”
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