by frog
The Minister of Finance might be standing by Treasury and the Reserve Bank’s farcical attempts to pick the future price of oil, but it seems the Associate Energy Minister does not believe the price of oil is retreating from its current US$90 a barrel price any time soon. He’s using it as a justification to start digging for gas next year in Taranaki.
So it would seem the government’s sustainability strategy still includes ‘dig and burn’.
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Parliament by frog on Mon, December 3rd, 2007
Tags: energy, gas, minister of finance, oil, Reserve Bank, Treasury
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Well I spose this will start the ‘are renewables adequate providers of baseload electricity’ debate up again…
“While the New Zealand Energy Strategy emphasises a renewable energy future, it also recognises that more gas still needs to be found to fuel current thermal baseload and peaking plant for electricity generation, as well as industrial and residential uses.”
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The Labours strategy for the enviroment: ‘dig and burn’
The Greens strategy for the economy: Slash and Burn!
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…except for their tax cuts?
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Would be good to know about renewable’s use as baseload generation though…
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And how is dig and burn any different from import and burn?
(and why are no frogs counting the carbon miles, or croaking ‘Made in NZ’, when we cant even crack our own crude?)
Green strategists are not seeing the fuel picture… there is a way to make geosource’d carbon ‘climate neutral’ and lever biofuels into mainstream. One needs to think beyond oxidation, reduction energy sources and more towards ‘carbon sub-oxides’ so we get the fuel stock to where it will ‘serve and protect’. (repowering the transport fleet with environmentaly SAFER B100/BioButanol fuels would be a good start)
But lets pretend we have never had that conversation….
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Hi Nick and Stephen. Thanks for your hilarious jokes about our economic and tax polices. Is there a chance that you could possibly explain the justification behind your jibes?
e.g. on our tax policy Stephen, we support personal tax cuts, (although you’re right we don’t support slashing taxes because that would mean slashing govt spending and making hundreds of thousands of people unemployed and driving tens of thousands of people to crimes of desperation).
so Nick, can you backup your cheap jibe with some justification about how the Greens economic policies will slash and burn the economy? Which particular of our policies do you feel are destructive?
Personally I feel that the Greens future-proofing policies are likely to make the economy healthier and it is business-as-usual economic policies in a finite world that are more likely to result in a destroyed economy.
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Hi stuey, sorry this post disappeared from my radar somehow. I was actually aware of the Green income tax cut to support a carbon (or pollution?) tax, I was just wondering if Nick was aware of them. I do support some tax cuts though esp regarding the tax brackets.
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