Land transport is very specifically carved out as it’s such a large generator of costly claims. Seems fine to not charge that as income tax?

For what it’s worth, if ACC just did the basic thing and covered all payouts to motorcyclists from money collected from motorcyclists, the levy would be considerably higher. There’s already a level of cars paying for motorcyclist injuries baked into those prices

My fuel price o-meter are the guys who hoon up and down the street a couple times a week.

Once they stop, I’ll worry

Let’s just say there is a strong consumer preference to not have to do this lol

I mean yeah, but the garments are incredibly itchy. Maybe ok for sweaters that don’t have much skin contact.

Strong wool was always undesirable (vs merino) for most clothes, but most farms haven’t been selecting sheep genetics for wool for many years so it has got worse.

Fun thing is that there is so little hope in the non-merino wool sector that most studs where farmers source their genetics, have stopped measuring wool stats.

Shedding sheep are gaining traction for small farms.

They should run a poll.

Do you think treated sewerage should be dumped
on land - yes/no
in rivers - yes / no
at sea - yes / no

Confident we’d get super majority no’s for every option.

What does the button do.

Cap prices and ration, nationalise stock and procurement?

More or less has to come from the gulf coast rather than the west coast due to no pipelines from the east. California also typically imports refined products from Asia. 28 days.

Bidding against mid sized richer states who want to shield their populations from spenny petrol might get difficult

NZ Fuel Reserves Monitor Live countdown to NZ fuel depletion — reserve gauges, vessel tracking, Polymarket odds, demand analytics

However if you want to feed the doomerism with a ticking clock nzoilwatch.com#/

Surely our highest value users are going to be able to outbid (gestures… someone) for the 80% of global oil supply that isn’t disrupted before our ~70 days of stock runs out.

Bet there is some retired engineer who worked on the project out there feeling pretty vindicated

I know never waste a crisis, but you’d think there were a million EVs on ships a couple km outside the EEZ with the way some of the boosters are talking.

Does this include NZers buying shares in foreign companies?

If so I am doing by part 🫡

Congestion charge, buses, apartments next to where people work and play 🤷

Yes. The solution to fuel consumption is high prices. Subsidising it just encourages more use.

Give poor households cash and let everyone optimise their lives to minimise fuel consumption and costs.

Kiwirail are also kinda sharks, so being hard nosed and arguing for a better deal for themselves is to be expected as well.

PPOA o for option being the key word

Still that can’t be free and upgrades them from motivated dreamers with a bit of cash for consents. To somewhat serious.

There’s also at least 3 large wind farms at serious stages of consenting / planning in the area. Southland (250-350), Kaihiku (300mw), and Mahinerangi 2 (190mw). Plus half a dozen more less public projects.

A lot of this only gets build if someone wants to buy that power at terms that pencil.

We are right? That’s what the prices are for.

A box that takes in electricity and produces foreign currency.

Electricity which generators are chomping at the bit to have a reason and a contract to produce.

A new Southland datacentre would be the country's second-largest drain on power The country's two biggest users of electricity could both soon be located in Southland.

Excellent? Getting a bunch of electricity export earnings would be handy.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Previously declined hydroscheme on West Coast river now granted draft approval under fast-track law A run-of-the-river hydropower scheme on the Waitaha River, previously declined, has now been given approval in a draft decision under fast-track legislation.

A run-of-the-river hydropower scheme on the Waitaha River, previously declined, has now been given approval in a draft decision under fast-track legislation.

This break in the graph cracks me up every time I see it. Real salt in the wound stuff for the refinery bros

And easier to do subsidies, assuming there is some supply response

Imo rationing would inevitably become less popular than letting prices work.

One bad headline after another. Instead of getting to blame the importers / retailers it all becomes your problem.

Might be popular initially though

“This is our biggest cost”

*fully loaded on the spot price of this volatile commodity*

Probably yelling into the void here, but are NONE of these businesses capable of doing some basic hedging?

But like, why have these businesses not been managing their fuel price risk. They can (read: should) have been buying ahead or locking in pricing ahead of time and smooth any price volatility.

Households do more risk management than this with mortgage / interest rate risk lol