Peak Oil
BIOFUEL BILL - Third Reading
04 Sep 2008This legislation provides certainty for business investors who are poised to invest significant money in infrastructure in this country. It is the sort of certainty that the National Party often demands for investors, but it is not voting for it.
BIOFUEL BILL - Second Reading
04 Sep 2008The whole world is on a mission to move its transport systems off fossil fuels and on to renewable sources of energy, and we do not have a lot of time to do it, because this is driven by two things
Public Transport Oral Question
The Greens highlight the Government's inaction on public transport and their senseless road building binge!
Nat’s energy policy is financial madness
14 Aug 2008
The National Party's new energy policy is a tribute to cronyism and makes no economic sense. It ignores our biggest energy problem, transport fuels and the rising cost of oil, and relies on ‘drill and hope’. No one with any common sense would invest in more subsidies to fossil fuels when New Zealand is so well endowed with renewable energy.
Oil Addiction
Not one of ours, it's from the good magazine, but makes the peak oil point so well - can't think of anywhere better for it to be than our peak oil page.
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Oil dependency takes its toll
28 Jul 2008Today’s new trade deficit figures showing a massive increase in the cost of importing petrol and other oil products dramatically illustrate why the Government must reduce New Zealand’s dependence on oil, the Green Party says.
$1/litre petrol drives NZ’s biggest roading programme
15 Jul 2008A Green Party analysis of Land Transport New Zealand economic evaluations shows that the Government systematically discriminates against public transport projects, including the pricing of petrol at $1 dollar a litre.
$10 a litre petrol prices in a decade is a wake-up call
11 Jul 2008
Predictions from prestigious Australian research institute CSIRO that petrol could cost up to AUS$8 – about NZ$10 – per litre within a decade means we need to rapidly change course to avoid serious economic disarray.
Government's transport plan based on petrol at $1 per litre.
Plans to spend 230 times more on roads than on cycle and walking.