EVs Are Not Doing Well
Someone who plopped down $160,000 on an EV is not a Luddite. He tried, and failed, and now wants an ordinary ICE Porsche.
Someone who plopped down $160,000 on an EV is not a Luddite. He tried, and failed, and now wants an ordinary ICE Porsche.
Fuel tax builds roads. Sculptures find a sponsor. ACT is right.
Chippy hid the invoice. Ginny could not find the fund that pays for the potholes.
At other drivers, at the wife’s driving and at pedestrians (plus a bonus comment).
Auckland Harbour crossing work tops $106M, another detailed business case ordered.
This $20 fare cap looks like just another ride on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, with the rest of New Zealand holding the ticket.
Labour loves these targeted subsidies because they let them pick winners and losers while pretending to care about the cost of living.
So now they get it that no one wants to ride a train where the destination is in some mythical place called Aotearoa. It’s not like everyone apart from sickly white liberals has been complaining about it for years.
The ‘kill switch’ mandate, Massie says at the beginning of his speech that started off the House floor debate over the amendment, “will probably sound like a bad science fiction movie.” However, it is reality.
The railway isn’t a vehicle for changing our beliefs: it’s literally a vehicle for getting us where we need to go. Concentrating solely on that is surely the best way to proceed.
Road-user charges can pay for more than just road maintenance, so why stop there? New Zealand could use electronic road-user charges to encourage all sorts of other behaviours.
It’s hard to take anyone who wears brown shoes with blue suits seriously.