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Speaker 1: So the letter from the energy industry yesterday got less

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Speaker 1: coverage than the call last week for a bipartisan approach

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Speaker 1: to begin for structure. So I'm not sure what that means.

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Speaker 1: Did the media not notice the letter, or did they

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Speaker 1: notice the letter and not think promoting a bipartisan approach

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Speaker 1: was useful, or had we given up basically, given last

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Speaker 1: week's call fell apart. Basically, the moment got uttered publicly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, last week's call was a thirty year plan

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Speaker 1: and new agency and the first thing that happened was

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Speaker 1: Chris Hipkins poo pooed it, citing the treatment they got

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Speaker 1: on light rail and cycle bridges. Anyway, I think at

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Speaker 1: least part of the lesson is that it's easy to

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Speaker 1: call for a bipartisan approach, which is what the energy

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Speaker 1: users are asking for, and indeed offering a few starters

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Speaker 1: for ten which is what they do in their letter.

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Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea either. It's the next bit

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Speaker 1: where things fall apart. Is it possible we've become too

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Speaker 1: divided a country. I mean, we cite America and it's

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Speaker 1: blocked and broken system as the premier example of a

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Speaker 1: country being unable to get anything done. But are we

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Speaker 1: any different? Think about it last week infrastructure, this week energy,

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Speaker 1: and what's the outcome? Infrastructure A party that canceled roads

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Speaker 1: and build cycle ways and bylanes, the other party who

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Speaker 1: canceled the bike lanes and built the roads. A party

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Speaker 1: that liked to pay for project through debt versus a

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Speaker 1: party that likes PPPs and congestion charging the energy crisis.

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Speaker 1: One party that thought a sixteen billion dollar lake was

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Speaker 1: the answer, another that thinks gas should be looked for

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Speaker 1: and coal should be burned. The question, which is where

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Speaker 1: a new agency or more cohesive approach would come in,

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Speaker 1: is where's the middle ground? Where's the commonality? Trouble with

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Speaker 1: this country, like America, is we come at it from

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Speaker 1: not only two different sides, but with a very very

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Speaker 1: large gap to close and a long held belief that

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Speaker 1: we are right and the other guys are out to lunch.

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Speaker 1: But unlike America, where you find moderate versions of Democrats

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Speaker 1: and Republicans in both parties, here you're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: think outside your parties mandates, far less actually vote against them.

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Speaker 1: So the conclusion would appear the train shall never meet

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Speaker 1: because we are black and white, and the answer isn't

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