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# She Wants to Do What!
- URL: https://goodoil.news/she-wants-to-do-what/
- Published: 2019-08-24T01:30:39.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-24T23:27:57.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

Warning

This is NOT satire.  
I REPEAT.  
This is NOT Satire

In another case where the truth is stranger than fiction Green list MP, Associate Transport Minister and writer of [secret letters,](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/jags-secret-letter-flouts-the-cabinet-manual/?ref=goodoil.news) Julie Anne *“Car Fascist”* Genter has been exposed for ordering an investigation into BANNING Petrol car imports by 2035.  

> Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter ordered an investigation into a total ban on petrol car imports by 2035 among a range of options to reduce emissions in the national transport fleet.  
> An array of documents, including an excerpt from a draft cabinet paper from April last year, reveal Genter instructed officials to work on the policy, before scrapping the plan.  
> But **National says the fact the plan was even worked on was “irresponsible”.**  
> A Ministry of Transport (MoT) report from September last year showed officials had been instructed to “progress an initiative to regulate an end-date of 2035 to the import of light vehicles that are unable to be driven without fossil-fuels”.  
>  
>  
> In other words, **Genter wanted to ban the import of all cars which still use petrol by 2035.**  
>  
> \[…\] MoT officials progressed work and presented a report in October last year titled “Ban on Importing Light Vehicles Powered by Fossil Fuels; Preliminary Cost-Benefit Analysis”.  
> This report looked into the pros and cons of such a ban.  
> But, due to the “lack of information, time and resources”, the cost-benefit analysis was not able to take a number of key issues into consideration.  
>  
> For example, how such a ban would affect EVs was not looked into, nor was the impacts on electricity prices and the road safety impacts of changing New Zealand’s vehicle fleet so dramatically.  
> The report said the main benefit for consumers would be the saving people would make when it comes to not having to buy petrol.  
>  
> \[…\] Genter’s proposal was never taken to Cabinet – “it was rejected and ruled out”.  
>  
> National transport spokesman Chris Bishop said the fact a Cabinet paper was produced showed she was **working behind closed doors to change the law**.   
> “Reducing emissions from our vehicle fleet is an important step in the fight against climate change.  
> “But it would be irresponsible to make petrol cars illegal so soon without a solid plan to help people into electric vehicles,” he said.  
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> NZ Herald