That the fella responsible for drafting and executing the budget can't differentiate between a gross and proportionate impact is ridiculous.
Clearly if your house has five vehicles registered and you purchase high octane fuel your bills will be higher, but that doesn't matter a jot when your household income is $300k+.
When you're a family living in the public transport wastelands of outer Melbourne, reliant on ever-decreasing government support to keep your kids in school and food on the table, the proportionate impact is going to be significant. Poor people don't drive as far? What a fucking idiot.
That he went to defend his comments is ridiculous.