Just Announced: NZFirst to Remove Climate Tax From Fuel New Zealand First will abolish the ETS tax from fuel which means immediately fuel will be 12 to 14 cents a litre cheaper. Over the past year fuel consumers have paid 12 cents a litre of petrol, and 14 cents a litre of diesel under the ETS, adding to the excessive cost of our imported fuel. A total of $850 million has been taken away in the past year from consumers and businesses and allocated for the purchasing of Carbon Credits as part of the ETS linked to the Paris Agreement. New Zealand First will remove this burden on consumers and businesses over the next term of government. There is no substitute for diesel for industry. Likewise, ordinary consumers have suffered too much with the cost of petrol. People need to understand that when you propagate woke green ideology, it costs New Zealanders while delivering us nothing. If a Green/Labour government is elected they will put even more ETS costs on New Zealanders as they did in 2021 when they pushed ETS charges up to 20 cents a litre, taking $1 billion out of the pockets of NZ consumers.

New data out today from Stats NZ shows greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand households and industries in the June quarter were at their lowest level in at least 16 years.

REMINDER: Trump has overseen a larger fall in coal-fired power than any other US president (ie, other things equal, the EPA repealing power-plant CO2 rules means more coal power,…but other things are not equal, because most coal plants are old and expensive)

Artists to Mathematicians:

Any day.

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IMF on Argentina

The Climate Change Commission will be gone.

It took them 60 years to figure out that if you give a bunch of free stuff to poor people, you create more dependent poor people.