subsidy Archive

  • Kevin Hague

    It’s official: Bicycling can save your life - by Kevin Hague



    The highly esteemed British Medical Journal has found, after an extensive study, that cycling literally saves lives. The research looked at the differences in health benefits of using a bicycle sharing scheme run in Barcelona compared with travel by a car in an urban environment. The results were clear: public bicycle sharing schemes can improve [...] read more
    October 20, 2011 10:02 am - 4 Comments
  • frog

    MEUG complains $145m free money isn’t enough - by frog



    The Major Electricity Users Group (MEUG) is complaing that the $145 million cash dollars of taxpayer money that Nick Smith’s ETS will give them between now and the end of 2012 is simply not enough free money. read more
    September 3, 2010 2:23 pm - 15 Comments
  • frog

    Gerry’s biofuel subsidy blunders - by frog



    I was aghast when Minister Brownlee stormed into office in 2008, declaring that a cost free, modest biofuel sales obligation was poor economics and bad for the market, and that it must be repealed and replaced with a subsidy. read more
    July 6, 2010 11:52 am - 12 Comments
  • frog

    When are subsidies sustainable? - by frog



    That is not a trick question, nor an economics one. The National-led government has decided that a biofuel subsidy is preferable to a sales obligation, no doubt on ideological grounds rather than economic grounds. We now have the Biodiesel Subsidy Scheme, which pays biodiesel producers in New Zealand up to 42.5 cents per litre to [...] read more
    June 16, 2009 2:10 pm - 15 Comments
  • frog

    Too many reports, not enough action on the ETS - by frog



    While the select committee struggles through the deluge of submissions on the ETS, the rest of us who are interested are forced to wade through the plethora of reports released this week in honour of our first serious attempt to tackle CO2 emissions. The report card? Not so good. The one thing that all the [...] read more
    May 2, 2008 2:39 pm - 5 Comments