Tony Abbott took his mobile scare campaign to Capital Doorworks in the Canberra suburb of Hume today, persisting in his misrepresentation of the Gillard Government’s carbon price.

Getting more shrill each day, the Opposition Leader irresponsibly talked down Australia’s economy, claiming the carbon price would be “an absolute disaster for our economy.”

Capital Doorworks – which is owned by a former Liberal Party political candidate in the ACT – installs residential, commercial and industrial roller doors, shutters and gates.

The fact is the Government’s carbon price will apply to less than 1,000 of the biggest polluters in our economy. Capital Doorworks is not one of those businesses.

Mr Abbott also predicted that the Australian steel industry would “disappear.”

The fact is the carbon price will include assistance to support jobs in emissions intensive industries like steel manufacturing which face international competition.

Under the former Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), this assistance would have shielded the steel industry from 94.5 per cent of the carbon price.

Finally Mr Abbott would have customers of Capital Doorworks believe its prices would jump dramatically.

The fact is Treasury modelling of the CPRS showed the price of products like these would rise by 0.7 per cent – and the Government will assist households to help with price impacts.

Instead of engaging in a dishonest scare campaign, Mr Abbott should own up to the fact that his subsidies-for-polluters policy would cost households $720 a year.

He should also own up to his great big new pension clawback – the Coalition’s policy of taking away the Government’s assistance to pensioners and households.

The trouble is Mr Abbott is not interested in the facts. He’s only interested in fear.