The Opposition Leader’s mobile scare campaign appeared to be running out of steam today, with Tony Abbott forced to start revisiting interstate locations of the same company.

Mr Abbott tried to deliberately mislead employees about the Gillard Government’s carbon price policy as he toured Visy’s Campbellfield-based pulp and paper plant in Victoria. Earlier this month he tried the same stunt at Visy’s Gibson Island plant in Brisbane.

Once again, Mr Abbott has ignored the fact that Visy will be assisted under a carbon price to support both jobs and international competitiveness.

When talking to workers, he also failed to mention that under the former Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), Visy would have qualified for emissions intensive and trade exposed assistance, shielding it from 94.5 per cent of the carbon price.

For example, this level of CPRS assistance under a $20 carbon price would have reduced the cost impact on Visy products to just $1 per tonne of product.

To demonstrate the extent of Mr Abbott’s exaggeration, that would be a cost increase of $1 on enough boxes to hold 3,000 pizzas.

Alternatively, the cost of Mr Abbott’s subsidies-for-polluters policy for the average household is enough pizza boxes to hold almost 13,000 pizzas.

The truth - which Mr Abbott continues to struggle with - is that less than 1000 big polluters will pay the carbon price, and those that are emissions intensive and trade exposed will be assisted to support local jobs and ongoing competitiveness.

The Government has consistently stated that every cent raised from the carbon price will be used to assist households, to support jobs and to invest in clean energy and climate change programs.

Mr Abbott, on the other hand, wants to slug average households with a tax of $720 a year and pay it to the big polluters.