Week five of Trump’s illegal war – Can Luxon & Willis con Kiwis when real fuel crisis hits?
As the Iran war barrels into week five, New Zealand’s fuel vulnerability is no longer a hypothetical. The real question is whether Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis can keep conning Kiwis into believing this government is in control when the diesel crunch they failed to prepare for starts biting the economy, the supply chain, and every household budget.
Week five of the dumbest most stupid geopolitical blunder since Vietnam, and Trump is telling us that he’s talking to ‘top guys’ while also saying he is going to obliterate Iran’s energy infrastructure.
Charming. In the last 12 hours:
- Iran bombed Israel’s Teva Pharmaceuticals factory
- The largest generic drug manufacturer on earth. Chemical leaks. Secondary explosions. Factory burning.
- Iran knocked an Israeli power plant in the Negev completely offline.
- Iran carried out 27 strikes on the Negev with zero visible air defence activations. Not one interception. Nothing.
- Haifa Port OIL refinery struck. Stock collapsed 4% within hours.
- US bases hit simultaneously in Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Four countries. One coordinated attack.
- Ex-CIA officer on record: “165 innocent little girls killed by American Tomahawk missiles” targeting Iranian universities.
- Iran issued ultimatum: US must condemn university bombings by noon March 30, or Iran will strike American universities.
- Iran announces it will begin bombing the personal homes of US and Israeli military commanders.
- Yemen has entered the war on Iran’s side. Iraq is sending aid to Iran.
- Iran claims full control of the Strait of Hormuz
- 40% of the world’s seaborne oil.
- The Atlantic is running “multidimensional economic disaster” headlines.
Week five of Trump’s illegal war meets New Zealand’s diesel vulnerability
Now what did our Foreign Minister say again?
Y-E-A-H.
‘Bout that.
TDB has been very clear from the beginning that this was a horror show that could destabilise the global economy and that Trump, manipulated by Israel, has blundered into a quagmire.
They killed the old Ayatollah and replaced him with a young much more extreme Ayatollah.
Apparently this is a ‘success’.
To date, this Government only moved, once the crisis was already at the door, because their election narrative is Labour spent too much on COVID.
This has led to a political paralysis which is going to ultimately damage them as the worst outcomes of running out of diesel become reality.
Kiwis felt safe and cared for over COVID under Labour. They will feel terrified and angry with this fuel crisis under National.
Questions will immediately arise as to why they didn’t do enough preparing us for what it’s about to hit, especially now the lies NZ First and Shane Jones have been spinning over Marsden Point are now apparent to everyone after blistering articles were published in The Post and NZ Herald that clearly point to Shane Jones being the one who screwed up...
Arguments about the current energy crisis have shifted. It is no longer just about what ministers are doing now. It is also about what they chose not to do when they had the chance.This morning brought the clearest accountability journalism to this debate. Kate MacNamara in the Herald and Edward Miller in The Post both zero in on the same issue: New Zealand was left more exposed than it needed to be, and ministers were warned about the country’s lack of fuel reserves.The diesel reserve we scrappedKate MacNamara’s Herald investigation published in the Herald today lays out the timeline with forensic insight. After Marsden Point’s refinery closed in 2022, the Labour Cabinet agreed that a 21-day minimum diesel stockholding was not enough. They committed to a government-contracted public reserve of an additional seven days. That’s 70 million litres of diesel to be stored in the old crude tanks at Marsden Point. MBIE issued a request for proposals in late 2023. The plan was to have fuel in the tanks by early 2025.It never happened. First, Labour left the capital costs (in the region of $100 million) unfunded. And while the incoming coalition made plenty of noise about fuel security, Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones then killed off the plan in a July 2024 Cabinet Paper.
Labour bears plenty of blame. It let the refinery close and didn’t properly fund the reserve plan. But the decision to actually kill the reserve, in writing, sits with this Government. Jones is now hinting at using regional development funds to buy the very diesel storage he scrapped eighteen months ago.
So when the real fuel crisis hits, who wears it?
…here’s the political reality.
The IEA said this was a worse energy crisis than the 1970’s oil shock and Ukrainian War combined!
The worst case scenarios are now the only scenarios and the damage that will cascade through the economy to the community to the society are beyond anything we’ve ever had before.
When people get hit the hardest by these events the culpability of Shane Jones and NZ First in causing this storage mess alongside National’s refusal to act will become magnified and vilified.
People want the Government to help them the way Jacinda and Grant did, they don’t want to get a kick in the guts and told to harden up.
You thought you hated Jacinda post-Covid? Wait until we run out of diesel!
Oh will you hate Shane Jones, NZFirst and National with a special kind of anger then.
The first duty of the State is to protect the people, not betray them.
What an absolute Clusterfuxon!!!
Jones shoulda been locked in the room with his porn and credit cards aaages ago…
As a politician, he’s a great standup comedian!
It’s a question for our time. Have Winston and Shane modelled themselves on the trump playbook or has trump modelled himself on the W and S show?
Correct answers will win a slightly time expired Cadbury Crème Egg.
Don’t worry about supplies of these delicacy’s, there’ll be squillions in a few weeks.
If i were in charge
-land troops on Karg Island
– include oil industry experts and safely shut the whole thing down
-set demolition charges ready to blow the whole thing up
Start negotiations to end the war
Peter how about tell Israel they are on their own, and they can sod off. The whole rationale for this offensive is bullshit.
Taking carg island won’t end the war, it’ll piss Iran off more, westerners, kiwis included, hilariously think if you take this island and economically wound them they’ll just give up. No it’s existential to iran. They cannot stop fighting and would not stop fighting if you take Carg island and good look trying.
It would result in large US casualties just to take it, keeping it would be impossible long term because it’s so close to Irans mainland that Iranian drones would rain bombs over the island perpetually. USA troop losses would be immense, stocking, refueling and supplying any base there would be impossible for the USA.
This war isn’t ending anytime soon, Irans regime will not negotiate with people who killed the ayatollah, they will not negotiate when that shows weakness and will ultimately end the regime, , they will never agree to let USA control their oil and they will never agree to be some kind of pro Israeli puppet state and they will never agree to not have the capacity to defend themselves from Israel.
The war started during peace talks, they aren’t gonna negotiate with the USA. They’ll drag this out as long as they can knowing it’ll f*** trump in mid terms (and he was already f***ed prior to this)
There’s no off button.
The USA has bitten off more than they can chew.
This war could go on YEARS, Cargil Island is not the checkmate the right thinks it is
Trump will never change – his masochistic ego is now so huge he’s past the point of no return. He is certifiably insane and doesn’t know when to close his loose lips. Yes, I loath this purveyor of mixed, twisted messages and find it incomprehensible that seemingly intelligent world leaders cower and won’t call him out. If our world is to survive, Trump and his barbarous mate, Netanyahu, have to “GO” now! NZ’s govt also has blood on its hands for its apathy, subservience and must now be hoping that Rocket Lab don’t become a legitimate target. This, so unnecessary and sorry saga, will sink this pathetically weak govt and so it should. They should have opposed Trump’s warmongering and bullying behaviour long ago. You reap what you sow!
ps Thx Kate & Edward!
Trumps righteous hammer is falling on the wicked regime in Iran as we stand shoulder to shoulder with United States and Israel in these end times battles. When the call comes and it will Luxon and Willis better not hesitate. Send our Kiwi sons and daughters to fight alongside the United States and Gods chosen people. This is spiritual warfare against the forces of darkness. Fuel crisis? Pfft. Better empty shelves and rising prices than betraying our covenant with the Lord and the free world.
Jesus is returning and He wont find us cowering in neutrality. New Zealand must stand with the USA and Israel now. God bless our troops. Amen.
“these end times battles” This stupid shit is how the world got here.
Zelda I think youll find Jesus said “Turn the other cheek” he didnt need to add dont sniper children or bury them alive. He also gave the world the parable of the good samaritan (Samaria ie. Palestine).
Peace.
Gee Zelda, if you are right you won’t need any assets or money so could you send them all to me . I’ll make sure that your money will be faithfully applied and I’ll wear the Tshirt.