Wait, wait, what – WTF?
NZ will be ‘dumping ground’ for high-emission cars, EV advocate warns
The transport minister is dismissing fears New Zealand will become a dumping ground for high-emission vehicles as the government slashes the Clean Car Standard.
The standard – an effective penalty set up to incentivise the uptake of low- or zero-emission vehicles – will drop by nearly 80 percent at the end of this week.
Importers will be charged $15 per gram of CO₂ for new imports instead of $67.50, and $7.50 per gram of CO₂ for used imports instead of $33.75.
Transport Minister Chris Bishop has made a strong case for urgent change to save consumers hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars when buying a new car.
“If we don’t act there will be $264 million in net charges that could have and likely will be passed on to New Zealanders through higher vehicle prices,” he said.
Drive Electric’s board chair Kirsten Corson described the change as “really disappointing” and “embarrassing”.
“If you look at us compared to Australia, in Australia you’re paying $100 as a penalty and now we’ve just slashed that to $15 in New Zealand.
“So we are going to become a dumping ground for high-emission vehicles.”
Let me see if I can get this completely fucking straight.
This arsehole climate denying Government slash the rebates on Electric Vehicles because EV is woke and this Government hates woke and then when they crash that market, they spin around to remove penalties for high emission polluting cars???
Listen to Bishop trying to justify this…
“The bottom’s fallen out of the EV market – there just simply hasn’t been the demand for there. And they also haven’t been able to get the supply…
“It’s like a double whammy. The supply constraints coming out of Japan and other places, for example, and very high prices because of those supply constraints and overseas markets… the demand isn’t there for New Zealanders as well.”
… BUT YOU ARE THE FUCKING ONES WHO CUT THE CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT YOU FUCKING MORON!
These fucking clowns get told that their policy will be counter productive and disastrous, they fucking do it anyway AND THEN SCRAMBLE IN DESPERATION WHEN THE VERY FUCK UP WE WARNED THEM ABOUT OCCURS???
Why the Zombie Jesus are Kiwis letting these arseholes get away with this?
They announce some draconian knee jerk policy reaction, that everyone in the secotr wars will produce counter productive negative outcomes and they always looked surprised.
EVERYONE told them that their changes to Emergency Housing would generate more homeless.
EVERYONE told them cutting back on Food Banks would make desperate people hungry.
EVERYONE told them the welfare sanctions wouldn’t work.
EVERYONE told them that denying compensation for being abused a s child if you had gone to prison was contrary to what the Royal Inquiry recommended.
EVERYONE told them cancelling the IRex Ferries was fucking stupid and would end up costing us more.
EVERYONE told them that shutting down Labour’s infrastructure pipeline would see workers leave NZ for Australia.
No wonder Kiwis simply don’t trust National with any of the big issues…
…National promise today what tomorrow never brings.
They have manipulated your petty bigotries with alt-right culture war bullshit while they pursue a NZ for their donor’s interests, not yours.
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