As fossil fuel backed Atlas Network’s motto goes, never waste a good crisis, whether real or perceived. And it is in this vein that NZ’s Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced today that one of her government’s top choices is to relax the rules around fuel categories allowed into the country.
Apparently, that’s code for altering sulfur constraints in diesel so they can import from the US, or in layman terms, poorer quality fuel that releases more pollution, is harder wearing on vehicles etc.
In the last two years, Chris Bishop and Simeon Brown already loosened and constricted clean car standards, including giving into auto industry lobbying to allow high pollutant cars to be dumped in NZ’s market.
Now instead of considering measures that other countries are taking, including work from home, public transport support, rules around fuel use, rations and fuel price monitoring, National’s first instinct is to pollute Aotearoa New Zealand more, keep up their GST intake, and continue to subsidise fossil fuels out of countries of the the USA
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