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 COโ for new imports instead of $67.50, and $7.50 per gram of COโ 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 supplyโฆ
“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 wouldnโt 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 Labourโs infrastructure pipeline would see workers leave NZ for Australia.
No wonder Kiwis simply donโt trust National with any of the big issuesโฆ
โฆNational 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 donorโs interests, not yours.
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And Luxon’s’ wife Amanda took advantage of the policy he was discrediting only for him to justify this by saying that is his wife’s business. Bloody bunch of hypocrites and as for bullshitting Bishop he is a master of spin and can look you in the eye and lie right to your face.
As I have been saying for months this CoC NEVER does anything properly โ ie dot the i’s and cross the t’s โ their incompetence is extreme and limitless. Everything they do has been, and still is, a rushed, frantic, out of control action showing us they believe that ‘more done badly’ is better than a ‘few done correctly’. It is far too late for them to change now so we need to make the changes and ASAP. We can’t wait until Nov ’26 when even more mayhem will have prevailed. This lunatic CoC is so out of control, I would love to be able to laugh instead of wanting to cry or scream!
Somtimes you just get a room full of ‘group think’ , can’t see past the end of their nose, thickos…a really bad combination.
Unfortunately, for naive old N.Z., this is what they voted in when they allowed the disastrous Coalition of Clusterfuckery to form.
Bishop, is plain straight out thick….everyone knows that…ditto , Luxon, Willis, Simeon B, Seymour and Van Velden…saturated with hubris…can’t be told anything and unable to discern and learn….a really, really bad combination.
These people are ‘not fit for purpose’
to hold office and should not to be
involved in the running of a country…They are so thick, so one dimensional, so lacking in any ability to think critically, that they are a straight out menace to N.Z. society…
The latest Ipsos Poll shows that the citizens of N.Z. have finally wised up..the scales have fallen from the eyes.. and not before time.
Do we really have to put up with another year of this idiocy…please..if there is a god…it would be much appreciated if he intervened soon…like tomorrow!
This govt is backwards big time what their overall plan? Doesn’t sound like they’re in government to represent NZers just their donors why are the right so supportive of these cunts? Just baffling what measures they’re taking to kiss the arse of the wealthy unfucken real
Why do they do it? Because they’re ideological zealots who continue to push a wheelbarrow full of failed neo-liberal refuse up a hill littered with the jagged fallout of the 50 previous times they attempted the same things, only for them to predictably fail. You can give them chapter and verse on why something is fucking stupid and unworkable, but they’ll plough ahead and do it anyway, because “Fuck you, New Zealand, we know better than you what’s best for everyone.”
Facts
There is plenty of EV supplied to the market.
Nobody is buying enough to offset the penalties that utes and SUV will occur. So, it’s a demand problem.
The clean car discount was always going to be a shortterm intervention until EV and ICE got to price parity.
They have. The CCD was a good marketing ploy as EV buyers were rewarded with a cheque. Even with a check the EV 2 years ago were dearer than today.
The targets on the Clean Car standard have not changed (they were stricter than OZ until 2027 when they aligned) it’s only the penalty. So, why pay a tax that does nothing to reduce co2 emissions.
The lack of supply was used cars from Japan. The didn’t do EV they did hybrids and those hybrids would have been subject to penalties next year.
Ohh, and the petrol era is here for years. IEA new predictions is 13 million barrels (169 a barrel, 2.2billion l) per day increase over todays demand by 2050 = 5.5 billion kg co2 increase for just the year 2050.
This change is a weak gnats fart in the global biosphere.