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Speaker 1: I reckon there was actually quite a smart move from

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Speaker 1: Chris Luxing yesterday calling on opposition parties to support the

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Speaker 1: government in fixing this energy crisis that we find ourselves

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Speaker 1: in at the moment. Not only was it a smart

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Speaker 1: move because this is serious. We've got businesses closing down

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Speaker 1: and cutting jobs because they cannot afford their power bills

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Speaker 1: at the moment, and if it's that serious, it really

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Speaker 1: does require everyone in Parliament to be grown ups about it.

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Speaker 1: But it's also a smart move because I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to eventually politically snooker Labor on that oil and

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Speaker 1: gaspan and I reckon they are starting to get in

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Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble on it now at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Mind blowingly, Labor is still committed to this absolutely ridiculous idea.

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Speaker 1: I mean even yesterday Chris Hepkins Boulders Brass said, nap,

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Speaker 1: it's a bottom line. They are absolutely going to bring

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Speaker 1: back the oil and gas pan. But I wonder if

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Speaker 1: this is something that they're saying until they say the opposite,

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Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? They're going to hold

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Speaker 1: this line hard until they change their minds on it,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think that they can hold this line forever.

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Speaker 1: Their argument at the moment. This is Labour's argument the moment,

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Speaker 1: basically is the climate is more important than two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty mil jobs in the Ruapeirho district and three

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Speaker 1: hundred jobs at methanex in Taranaki. And however many other

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Speaker 1: jobs are lost around the country at businesses that close

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Speaker 1: down now because they can't afford the power bills because

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Speaker 1: we're running out of gas and we're not trying to

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Speaker 1: find anymore because Labor won't let us try. That's their argument,

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Speaker 1: the climate is more important than those jobs. Labour's argument

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Speaker 1: on why they need to maintain the ban is just

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Speaker 1: absolutely bollocks as well. I mean they go around saying

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Speaker 1: that there is no more gas out there. Basically, yes,

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Speaker 1: there is. It is. There patently is gas out there.

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Speaker 1: There are two fields off the coast of the North

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Speaker 1: Island that have got gas. There's two toy off Taranaki

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Speaker 1: and there's cardre Were off Raglin. Both are just sitting there.

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Speaker 1: We know they've got gas. Nobody's tapping them at the moment,

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Speaker 1: so it is out there. If Labor even really did

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Speaker 1: believe what it was saying, right, if it really believed

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Speaker 1: that there was no more gas out there, then why

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Speaker 1: do you need a ban? Just lift the band, let

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Speaker 1: the investors trick themselves and go and keep keep exploring

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Speaker 1: for this non existent gas. It's not going to do

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Speaker 1: us any harm because there's no gas to find, apparently.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime we're going to benefit from the

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Speaker 1: fact that these companies bring their equipment down and maintain

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Speaker 1: the wells we've already got. Now, I do not think

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Speaker 1: that Labour's in trouble on this just yet. I reckon

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Speaker 1: they've got a bit of time, which is why they're

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Speaker 1: holding the line and saying they're going to bring this

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Speaker 1: band back. And my reason, the reason I reckon they're

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Speaker 1: not in trouble at the moment is because most Kiwis

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Speaker 1: are not affected yet. Most of us do not work

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Speaker 1: at Method X or any of these businesses being shut

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Speaker 1: down right now. But come April, our power balls are

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Speaker 1: all going to go up. We are in for a

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Speaker 1: nasty shock and when we see the cost of the

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Speaker 1: span on every single one of us, Labour might have

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Speaker 1: to come round to dropping this policy. For more from

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