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Speaker 1: The governor appears to be worried about the country's diesel reserves. Currently, importers,

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Speaker 1: at least from the start of next year, will have

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Speaker 1: to hold a minimum of twenty one day's worth of diesel,

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Speaker 1: but Shane Jones, the Resource Minister, now wants that increased

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Speaker 1: to twenty eight days. Transporting. New Zealand Interim Chief Executive

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Speaker 1: Don Calassie is with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, hey, Dom, good evening, Heather.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously not the only fuel that we store in

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Speaker 1: the country, So why are they're worried about diesel?

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Speaker 2: I think Shane Jones' point is that given diesels and

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Speaker 2: needs of trucks that get all the goods and freights

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Speaker 2: of people when they need it, that it's the most

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Speaker 2: important thing to have.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if we bumped it up from three weeks

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Speaker 1: to four weeks, would we have the storage capacity?

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Speaker 2: Look, I believe the fuel coats are looking into that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure you know that question for them other

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Speaker 2: than us.

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Speaker 1: He's also this is Shane Jones also considering regulations to

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Speaker 1: mandate keeping enough jet fuel near Auckland Airport. Are we

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Speaker 1: still not keeping enough near the air.

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Speaker 2: Look again, sorry, I can't answer that that would be

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Speaker 2: for the airlines to answer. But what I do know,

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Speaker 2: because I would Z for over a dozen years, was

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Speaker 2: that there are other resilience plans that come into play

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Speaker 2: if there's a short of jet. You know, planes can

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's inconvenient that planes can readjust their fuel

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Speaker 2: schedules so they fill it at the port sort of

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Speaker 2: either before coming here or even when they leaned here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a stuff, isn't it. Yeah, Don,

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Speaker 1: thank you really appreciated this. Don Calsi, Transporting New Zealand

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Speaker 1: interim Chief Executive.

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