Albanese admits Rudd's $6 carbon price could actually rise Last night Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese conceded the carbon price could actually be higher than the $6 Kevin Rudd claimed it would fall to. Albanese also could not deny that the Government's own Budget, passed just two months ago, projected the European price would actually soar to $38 by 2019. But he would not say whether he stood by that figure, which the Government relied upon in claiming it would raise enough money to pay for its disability and education schemes. Listen to our discussion here. And here is the Budget projection that Albanese suggested he was too unfamiliar with to discuss: