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Speaker 1: This is how we end up in trouble. Right, things

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Speaker 1: are said that are not challenged. So headline from yesterday

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Speaker 1: headline New Zealand will be dumping ground for high emission cars.

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Speaker 1: That was a claim from an EV lobby group. I

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Speaker 1: wonder why they would say that. A Chris Hopkins said,

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Speaker 1: or was allowed to say to media. We had one

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Speaker 1: of the highest uptakes of evs in the world and

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Speaker 1: the government stopped it. Now, let's deal with a bit

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Speaker 1: of fact here. In context, the government and the announcement

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Speaker 1: over car import charges has a mess on its hands. Right.

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Speaker 1: It is a mess because the previous government invented a

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Speaker 1: set of rules that didn't work. Didn't work whenever going

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Speaker 1: to work. They jurymanned a market that really really is

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Speaker 1: a smart economic or political move. Hipkins's reference was to

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Speaker 1: his subsidy scheme for evs. Right, the taxpayer gave thousands

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Speaker 1: of dollars to middle class tes la buyers. Now was

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Speaker 1: it one of the highest uptakes in the world. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but it certainly helped sales. Discounted stuff, stuff

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Speaker 1: paid for by other people tends to help sales. I

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Speaker 1: reckon of the government offered to renau your bathroom I

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Speaker 1: reckon bathroom renaults would go through the roof as for

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Speaker 1: a dumping ground. Well, how about less snobbery and more

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Speaker 1: acceptance that New Zealanders are actually allowed to buy the

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Speaker 1: sort of car they want. A lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: have fifty to eighty thousand dollars or even if you

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Speaker 1: go Chinese, thirty thousand dollars for an EV, or even

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Speaker 1: if they do, a lot of people simply don't want

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Speaker 1: an EV. Some people want a hybrid, and that's fine.

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Speaker 1: But if you direct people through taxes towards outcomes, at

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Speaker 1: your peril. The climate obsession has ended up basically up

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Speaker 1: ending markets and driven a level of complexity through charges

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Speaker 1: that the government literally doesn't know how to get out of.

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Speaker 1: They've got importers bringing in cars they can't sell. What's

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Speaker 1: the point of that? People will buy what people will buy.

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Speaker 1: This isn't China, where you're told what to do when

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Speaker 1: you cajoled allegedly through tax and fees. Look what happens.

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Speaker 1: The biggest irony is supplies and issue. See the importers

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Speaker 1: can't get the stock they need. Why not, Well, one

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Speaker 1: we drive on the opposite side of the road to

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Speaker 1: a lot of countries, but two manufacturers. As you will,

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Speaker 1: we're a pulling back on the production of these cars.

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Speaker 1: The government scheme wants you to and port these cars,

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Speaker 1: but they're pulling back on production. Why are they doing that,

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Speaker 1: you ask, because they can't sell them. Obsession, interference, meddling

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Speaker 1: and stupidity. It will trip you up every time. For

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