Simeon Brown confirms EVs, hybrids to pay road user charges
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has confirmed the Government is ending the road user charges exemption for light electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
You know the only winners in National’s road, road, roads policy?
The oil companies.
By moving away from petrol charges to miles driven, National hand the petrol companies a huge win and when you consider the early signals of the vast crony capitalism National are about to embark upon…
…alongside an orgy of privatisation, Public Private Partnership scams, and removing foreign buyer bans, the question has to be asked, has Simeon met with any Consultants with the oil companies?
We know the wealthy are pouring millions into ACT and National, have Oil consultants been whispering into Simeon’s ears?
Because his policy looks like it’s been paid for by the oil companies.
National have now killed off every means with which to reduce our emissions from EVs to slashing public transport to scrapping light rail to allowing Corporate Farmers to continue polluting for 5 years.
This hard right racist climate denying privatisation Government serves the interests of the rich and powerful and manipulated a Covid bitter electorate into handing them power.
Meanwhile the planet burns.
The oil companies have won. Again.
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And how well did the last govt go in addressing climate change?
Stopped NZ coal mining yet imported hundreds of millions of tons of coal from Indonesia!
Yessss the left are the leaders in climate change.
Now tell me again how much mining is involved (child Labour also) in getting the rare minerals and metals required for an electric car battery? (Or is that a ‘don’t look there’ question as it’s not happening in NZ but far away)
They also had our electricity network supplied by over 90% renewables for the first time in 20-30 years. the official results from MBIE show that we exported more coal than we imported so I expect that the rest of your comment is a result of your overactive imagination also, I guess it could pass for talkback truth but in the real world you need evidence if you want to be believed.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjnpKncpuWDAxWOh68BHXigCJwQFnoECBYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mbie.govt.nz%2Fdmsdocument%2F27344-energy-in-new-zealand-2023-pdf&usg=AOvVaw3omMlTRQXxTs68C8i_ZgJN&opi=89978449
Good points, Bonnie,
Not that exporting dirty brown coal to anywhere is anything to be proud of.
Nope Bonnie, my post stands, who was in Govt and leader in 2021?
“The amount of coal imported in 2021 increased by 71%, the highest importing of coal ever recorded.”
BOOM!
National are in government now, isn’t that your go too excuse hypocrite hard righty? Or is it” look the other way” now?
Bonnie, it is clear righty has no imagination as it’s the same shit different day.
You’ll never see hard righty ever give credit for the success that was achieved with climate change under Labour,why, because he never looked, simply repeated the dirty coal line .
NO YOU ARE NOT RIGHT even if your poli leans say you are wind and solar farms every where record EV sales get your head out of luxons arse and do some real research then pass it on to the fuck witt as he has no fucking idea mate
Simeon Brown is a caveman in regard to his portfolio.
Hellbent on entrenching and promoting last century’s failed and unsustainable petroleum technology, he seems to have an irrational hatred toward anything alternative or any technology that aims to mitigate the damage fossil fuels are doing to the planet and humanity.
He’s one of the worst.
Hell no! Be fair, he’s an ace on a shovel. We’ve seen the picture!
It’s only the wealthy that could afford new EVs and qualify for the EV subsidy. Most Labour voters buy second hand petrol cars so it was a policy that didn’t help Labour’s own base. Unless they got the ‘feel good’ from knowing the rich on the otherside of town were saving the planet while keeping up with latest fashion.
Yep, the Natzos serve Tobacco, Oil, second tier private health care (but the state will still do the hard stuff, the hips and knees and MRIs will be pushed to private), charter school for profit education (tax payers will fund that of course) and contracting out. They may sack thousands of PSA members, but many will be re-employed as private contractors!
Bent out of shape kiwis–as well as traditional tory boomers–voted these arseholes in and it has to be dealt with by community organising and strong opposition all the way.
The whole lot of them just look like a pack of crooks and imposters–not serious about running a country at all–just shovelling the loot upstairs and putting the boot into the bottom 50%.
They want NZ to resemble Southern USA and be all about guns, jesus and drilling.