1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: The government is copping heat today for canceling the EV 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: subsidy a couple of years ago, because it now looks 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: like a mistake, because with the oil price going up 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: and the petrol price as a result going up, wouldn't 5 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: it be better, of course, if all of us were 6 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: in electric vehicles, which we would have been if the 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: government hadn't canceled the subsidy at the end of twenty 8 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: twenty three. Now, let me tell you why it was 9 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: not a mistake to cancel it, Why what is happening 10 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: right now proves it, and why the lovies who are 11 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: saying this are wrong. What's important is that we're specific 12 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: in this argument about who it would be who'd be 13 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: owning those electric vehicles if that Tesla subsidy had continued. 14 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,279 Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the workers living all the way out 15 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: in Pocono driving all the way into the city, all 16 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: the way out in silver Stream and Wellington driving into 17 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: the city. It wouldn't be the solo mums trying to 18 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: make ends meet they can't afford new evy EV's. It 19 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: would be the well healed people living in central city 20 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: leafy suburbs who would have had eight grand knocked off 21 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: the price of their nice new cars. Those are not 22 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: the people who need to be helped when the fuel 23 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: price shoots up. So if we were going to do 24 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: something like this, maybe repeat some government help, wouldn't it 25 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: be much more useful if we took the six hundred 26 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars that we helped nice people into 27 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: their little, nice cars with and instead redirected that towards 28 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: people who were poorer instead. The proof of why we 29 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: didn't need to have that subsidy to this point is 30 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: in what is happening right now. I told you earlier 31 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: BYD sold eighty cars in New Zealand on Saturday alone. 32 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: They sold eight hundred cars on Saturday in Australia alone. 33 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: That is in New Zealand at least without the subsidy. 34 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: Which is to say that when rich people decide that 35 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: they want themselves a nice little EV they will go 36 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: and buy it without government help. They don't need government help. 37 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: They just have to want EV's, and they didn't want 38 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: evs before because it didn't stack up for them until 39 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: the fuel price went out. Now, look, I do think 40 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: that there is a place here for government help in 41 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: this crisis. If we find ourselves in something that gets worse. 42 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: But it's not for rich people. It's not to help 43 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: them get new cars. It's for poorer people who will 44 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: actually be the ones who will be stung by the 45 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: petrol prices if they keep on rising. So no, it 46 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: actually was not a mistake to cut the subsidy. Byds 47 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: sold in uz on Saturday is your proof. For more 48 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news talks 49 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 50 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.