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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So, the latest climate drama involving this government is that

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Speaker 2: they're being accused of lining up to scrap the clean

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Speaker 2: car standards altogether. And I would say to the EV

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Speaker 2: lobby group pushing this line that they may want to

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Speaker 2: just settle down about this. Even those of us, and

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Speaker 2: I'm looking straight at me here, even those of us

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Speaker 2: who want to see the clean car standards dropped all together,

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Speaker 2: do not think it's going to happen, because that would

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Speaker 2: take political courage that I do not think this government

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Speaker 2: has on a subject like this in an election year. Now,

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Speaker 2: what I'm talking about here, if you don't follow all

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Speaker 2: of the details here, this is the twin of the

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Speaker 2: ute tax, right. This is the other part of that

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Speaker 2: policy that was brought in at the same time. It's

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Speaker 2: a penalty that importers have to pay for every dirty

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Speaker 2: car that they bring into this country in the hope

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Speaker 2: that it will encourage them to instead go for the

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Speaker 2: cleaner cars the EV's and it was recently dropped right

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Speaker 2: down at the end of the year and it's up

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Speaker 2: for consultation at the moment. The government is considering overhauling

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Speaker 2: the system. So one of the questions being asked in

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Speaker 2: the consultation is should it just be abolished altogether? Now?

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Speaker 2: I'd love it to be because it hasn't worked because

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Speaker 2: we actually as consumers do not want to buy that

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Speaker 2: many evs in this country. The only thing that the

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Speaker 2: standard has done is to drop the number of Japanese cars,

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Speaker 2: which we love, coming into the country in the last

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Speaker 2: five years, from one hundred and fifty thousand a year

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Speaker 2: to ninety thousand a year. That's down forty five percent.

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Speaker 2: And apparently most of this, according to the dealers, is

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Speaker 2: because of the Clean Car Standard. And you do not

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Speaker 2: have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what

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Speaker 2: that does to prices. If you're bringing in so many fewer,

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Speaker 2: what happens to prices? That's right, they go up. Hopey

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Speaker 2: is that That's right? Me and you Ana love that now.

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Speaker 2: The other thing that it does is it forced two

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty four dealers just last year to shut

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Speaker 2: down because they couldn't get enough cars. So I'd love

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Speaker 2: to see the standard scrapped. It's only making our cars

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Speaker 2: more expensive, it's only putting people out of business, and

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Speaker 2: as we know, it's actually going to do nothing for

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Speaker 2: the climate. Because New Zealand is insignificant in the scheme

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Speaker 2: of global emissions, but it will not be scrapped because

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Speaker 2: every other developed nation apart from Russia, is applying standards

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Speaker 2: like this, So we'll be stuck playing the game too.

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Speaker 2: Should it be, it'd be abolished, I'm sorry to say.

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Speaker 2: Is just a question to make the government look like

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Speaker 2: it's considering everything, but it is not actually considering everything,

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Speaker 2: and we're probably stuck with us.

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