Americans become sexually aroused when thinking about their guns.
NZ Male voters seem to get very horny when thinking about their Utes.
The decision to tweak the clean car tax on gas guzzlers to subsidise electric cars shows Labour are here to win the election no matter the cost.
Tradies and male voters emotionally attached to their Utes already dislike Labour and are voting National or NZ First so they aren’t the target.
Who are those who love electric cars most?
50 year old + white tertiary educated women.
Who is the swing voter Labour need to keep to have any chance of leading the next Government?
50 year old + white tertiary educated women.
Giving a bigger tax break on second hand electric cars is aimed at those swing voters who weren’t rich enough to buy a Tesla.
It’s like one giant publicly taxpayer funded vibrator for swing voters.
Middle class bread and butter if you will.
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Commercial vehicles are used by people who make and maintain things that keep society functioning. That Labour/Greens don’t realise that does not surprise me at all. They just taxed the shit out of them some more and we all end up picking up the cost so Sylvia gets a cheaper Tesla to Julie’s bicycle activsm meeting in Mt Albert. FFS! Call it bread and butter idiocy. And yeah, its anti male. Go Labour…
People who do things need to be hammered by Labour, because they won’t be voting for Labour.
I hope you are correct Free Peach.
Those that work hard and those who need a hand up are hammered by this dreadful Labour Government.
Stop moaning. Labour and the wealthy are fixing climate change.
What a stupid comment. Nurses “do things” and they have had the biggest pay rise in political history. They are only angry about the amount of back pay. Are you seriously advocating for nurses to vote right when they’re real time wages went backwards under the previous Nact government? Jesus wept!!!
yes and urban tanks driven by ‘young middle class mums’ dropping the kids off or going shopping…I’d love the see the comparative figures for tradies and ‘city farmers’
Yes then they write the cost of the vehicle off against tax liability anyway
No they don’t. They depreciate it, the GST is claimed back but that figure is dependant on the previous vehicle but the new one now costs more. We all pay!
Stop moaning. Labour fixed climate change.
Let’s all celebrate.
Or just buy a second hand one..
Just do not tell Sylvia how many children ruined their heslth in “artisan mines” to dig enough Cobalt ore for her “Tizle”
A fair and equitable transition? Yeah right!
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-commits-just-transition
Men didn’t make the rules. Women did. Can’t blame Labour for following them. Yeah the pussy power.
Does Labour know what a woman is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JXZuXxc3M
Who cares.
They have an election winning policy on EV’s and gas guzzlers.
Blackface isn’t okay but woman face is.
Chippy seems confused about gender? Heads up, a Male has a penis & a Women has a vagina. you can’t deny Human biology no matter what the Trans nutters claim!
and that has what to with utes ant?
Imagine Chippy saying that on camera, probably not the brightest of idea to do so.
what women did what? And btw, did you now that men have pussies and give birth?
Just because modern man can give girth doesn’t mean progressive taxes is pseudo science.
Purge gender ideology
all of which is irrelivant to utes…why are the right so obssessed with lady-boys, did covid get in the way of your last thai fun break?
Yes the tinted window grey, sliver, anthracite, black, white and black, double cab, Raptor etc. boys were always going to vote Natzo/ACT anyway.
Campaign tactics aside, there is also the point that EVs are the future (now) of personal and small business transport. I am a petrol head from way back–Ford Custom 300s, Fairlanes, Galaxies etc. but just love my EV–endless torque and driving right past gas stations for a year.
Some of the ute pack will turn in the end…
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/here-are-12-electric-pickups-you-need-know-about
Stop your hate speech about these ‘women’ Martyn!!!
Very true.
The environment has nothing to do with it and let’s not forget that subsidizing rich city people in to Teslas is being payed for by those less well off, working class tradies, farm workers and rural people.
Yes Labour, we see you.
Keepcalm agree with you.
This Labour Government is not a friend to the people it should be.
Chippy wants power at any cost.
And National and Act don’t? Very, very, naive.
National have proven to only be the friend of farmers and the wealthy. The other “people” are not their friends.
I love my SUV 🙁
Wonder what they think of those who drive Valiants?
Probably too pale, stale & male to count for anything.
Martyn, Buhahahaha keep the jokes coming lol
My wife (adult, human, female) loves her Ute, her Harley and her V8.
Be weary of women getting sexually aroused by African cobalt mines.
t was a busy Saturday morning on George Street Palmerston North, contestants for the annual Stockcar Championships were in town and the vibe was humming.
Strolling along with the flow of pedestrians, my Wahine and I came across a bunch of Petrolheads gathered around the drivers door of a large and distinctly yellow late model Dodge Ram.
The conversations from this group centered on how close the drivers seat was to the steering wheel and there were several guffaws about the cubic capacity of the bloke who was suspected of driving this particular behemoth and were there blocks on the pedals?
Moving up behind this high octane gathering my wife attracted their attention by pressing the unlock button on her key fob. Looking around they were stunned to see a 5ft tall Maori Lady waving her keys.
Leaving a sea of dropjaws in her wake, my wife turned to me and with a knowing smile uttered “Blokes!!”
who likes EV cars?
” 50 year old + white tertiary educated women ” so tertiary educated men don’t like them? Or is it more to do with disposable income considering that these cars are expensive to buy and there is not yet a decent second hand market of it available?
And please define ‘women’, are you talking about the ‘women’ in politics, academia and media? And are these female/women or male/women or a mixture there off and does it include female/men?
And is this now a case where polititans shit themselves when asked what women are, but still a good enough word to blame ‘women’ for the things rich male and females in media, academia and politics are doing?
Cause poor women in this country own shit fuck all. The female women and the female men alike.
The West Auckland/Hamilton House Wife/husband,’ s decide elections and none if them can afford a electric car
The EV battery s are not safe enough for house wifes and house Husband s
I bet this change in tax will upset more voters than it pleases .EV drivers are left leaning I would think so they are already in the Labour /Green camp. Hunters farmers tradies boaties some would be on the fence and this tax could push them to N/Act
left voting? I thought your gripe was how it would affect those well known lefties tradies and farmers trev
It’s bloody ridiculous, the Ute Tax is just Tax rort using Climate change as a excuse? Pathetic & I’m a Labour voter!
“Americans become sexually aroused when thinking about their guns.
NZ Male voters seem to get very horny when thinking about their Utes.”
And sheep are chilled! No pressure on them to put out!
Who would contemplate buying a second-hand electric car? You’d be a sucker for punishment wouldn’t you.
When hydrogen takes over lithium tesla’s will be wanting CGT then if they can get money owed to them!
I hate going to work every morning with leaf’s, prius’ and tesla’s not having lights on to get to their destination. It’s worse with darker mornings.
You must turn on your vehicle’s headlights: from 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise. at any other time when you can’t clearly see a person or vehicle 100 metres away.
The police do nothing to enforce the road rules around this- not just electric cars though to be fair. But we know their excuse most likely. Range anxiety.
All electric cars pay nothing to use the roads so no wonder we have less infrastructure maintenance.
I do have to stop judging the majority by the minority (which is still too many) – if the police did their job things would be better.
I am excited about hydrogen – but lithium I refuse to touch.
Our next environment disaster like the dross in Matara?
estate the idea we have no maintainence of infrastructure because of EVs is simply wrong….blame neo-lib privatised services for that one
The emissions trading scheme already addresses fuel. And potential electric car owners are incentivised to purchase them because running costs are significantly lower. So why are we discounting the costs of high end electric vehicles for the upper middle to upper class?
I drive a ute because the Government demands I do and if I don’t they fine me, possibly brutally.
Besides I can’t afford 160K for the cheap one and the charger.
The law of unintended consequences dictates those who have to use a ute will be better off to buy a truck instead. A big CO2 vomiting truck.
I’m wondering when Toyota will make a hybrid Hilux. I’m pretty sure it’s only a matter of time.
We live entirely on solar power so have no way to charge a EV.
have to use a ute by govt decree peter do elucidate
If you knew the Road Rules you’d know the answer.
So no wonder the world is fucked with your attitude.
It’s not my attitude that’s the problem dude, it’s people like you with your selfishness.
Misogyny so thick you can stir with a stick.
When you say “misogyny” are you using the dictionary meaning or your lived experience? Serious question
That might work as a bribe so long as the voters in question don’t rent, don’t have a mortgage, have a secure, well paying job, have children either in private schools or have already moved to Australia, etc. Mind you those people don’t really sound like Labour voters anyway. Maybe they voted Labour because of Ardern, but I suspect they won’t make that mistake again.
Would be dreadful if the voters are fooled a third time,surely not?
Deception,dishonesty, secret agenda,abandon ship.