Has Simeon Brown been secretly meeting with oil lobbyists because National’s transport policy helps oil companies not Kiwis!
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.
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I always get my cars from Turners. Great company!
We need oil to survive si let’s be real and work with the companies rather than treat them as the enemy.
Tend to agree
Are you asleep at the wheel Trevor?
Vote for the 6th mass extinction. Vote National ACT NZF
We’ve been in the Anthropocene for a while now & even if you vote for Labour or the Greens, it will change nothing.
Too late for a u-turn Rat in a Cage? I agree. Not likely. Adaptation is our best hope. As it always been. But this time at what cost?
“….if you vote for Labour or the Greens, it will change nothing.” Rat in a cage
What’s your message here RIC?
Is it, don’t vote?
Is your message; Pollute as much as you like, because it won’t make a difference?
Are you saying to voters; Vote National and ACT, if it is in your short term interest to do so, because the future for your children is ruined anyway?
Of course he has.
The policy would seem to benefit the gas guzzlers and, by extension, the oil companies. The guzzlers, while reducing their fuel costs per kilometre traveled, would be paying the same road user charges, per kilometre, as more economical vehicles.
Unless of course they have differential rates for different classes of vehicle. Are National giving any indication of this?
Re oil companies Labour has already handed dependency to them by allowing the Marsden Pt shut down.
As far as M.P’s negotiating with oil company execs…you only need to look at ‘body language expert’ Simon Bridges negoticians with Anardako to see they are lambs to the..slaughter.
INEOS. The All Blacks. No whispering here. Used to be said that rugby and politics shouldn’t mix. A lot of folk got that wrong. Big oil and politics? Now we can safely say that money talks, whatever the colour.
I don’t think this is necessarily driven by oil companies is it? NACT are more than happy to see individuals drown in a sea of debt as they drive up house prices ( well do their absolute best to make that happen), but ridiculously against any government debt (at least in opposition). What they are working out is how to pay for things and if petrol consumption plummets with EV use where does the money come from? They just can’t admit they want to tax you as much as any other government. They just use words like toll. They’ll say it’s user pays but not offer any other meaningful transport option so it pretty much a tax. Same, same but different.