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Australian-born chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, Andrew Liveris, talks with Alan Kohler on ABC Inside Business<\/a> about the US fiscal cliff and why Australia needs a cohesive energy policy.<\/p>\n

“We have to create an infrastructure such that we can have gas-on-gas on competition domestically. If you build the infrastructure, and private sector can do it, and allow shared pipelines, if you build it you will get a domestic gas system and a pricing system that defies the oil gas parity pricing that countries like Australia should never have. If you have the resource in your country, you shouldn’t be paying the highest alternative price of the country that doesn’t have the resource. Why are we paying Japan energy prices when we have domestic gases?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian-born chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, Andrew Liveris, talks with Alan Kohler on ABC Inside Business about the US fiscal cliff and why Australia needs a cohesive energy policy. “We have to create an infrastructure such that we can have gas-on-gas on competition domestically. If you build the infrastructure, and private sector … <\/p>\n

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