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# How to Lose the Provinces in One Easy Step
- URL: https://goodoil.news/how-to-lose-the-provinces-in-one-easy-step/
- Published: 2019-07-10T04:30:30.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-10T04:30:30.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: NZ, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

No amount of subsidy is going to make an electric vehicle able tow a boat, caravan or a horse float, but penalising ute owners in order to subsidise latte-sipping elites to buy expensive electric vehicles is a surefire way to lose the provinces.

The government’s proposed new feebate scheme will go down like a cup of cold sick with New Zealand’s rural sector. Kicking our food producers in the nads is one hell of **a vote losing strategy.**

![](https://www.thebfd.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/13139313_10153432066946813_7044355861789684697_n.jpg)

> \[…\] It’s a myth that modern SUVs are dirty compared with their passenger-car equivalents.  
>  
> They used to be, but now most now share their engine technology and construction with normal road cars.   
> \[…\] Really tough, heavy and specialised SUVs do still exist – but they’re in the minority.  
>  
> \[…\] What about utes? Yes, they are dirty by industry standards.  
>  
> \[…\] Utes would be heavily penalised under a feebate scheme. Would that lead to an immediate change in buyer habits?  
> Unlikely. **Those that need them for work will continue to buy them**. Those that buy for emotional reasons are often still paying with a company chequebook. I think they call that “fee insensitive”.   
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/114089097/proposed-feebate-tax-wont-stop-kiwi-love-affair-with-suvs-and-utes?ref=goodoil.news)  

How typical of this government. They propose a scheme that will not only be ineffective at creating the change that they want; it will also have the bonus of losing them the provinces in one easy step. That’s what happens when you get in bed with the Green party.