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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social

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One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social

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"Invest in PT, walking, cycling & rail, and rapidly electrify the vehicle fleet. It'll save us money, shield us from fuel shocks and give us cleaner air, safer streets, less congestion, more freedom of choice. What’s not to like?"

Op-ed by @connorsharp.bsky.social: www.thepost.co.nz/business/360979580/iran-war-oil-shock-crisis-reveals-folly-system-reliant-fossil-fuel

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

9d

The National Party MPs almost get it…

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social

10d

An overview of how governments around the world are responding to the largest supply disruption in history.

New Zealand's entry is mostly blank, but at least it doesn't feel like the Covid response right? 🙄

#iran #nzpol
www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/2026-energy-crisis-policy-response-tracker

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Bike Auckland @bikeauckland.bsky.social

12d

The fuel crisis hasn’t broken our system. It’s exposed it.

New Zealand’s deep dependence on private cars has left households and communities structurally vulnerable, and this week’s chaos shows it.

Read more 👉https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/the-crisis-hasnt-broken-the-system-it-reveals-it/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf

13d

"I think the climate crisis should be everyone’s No.1 priority, but you can’t tackle the climate crisis without tackling the affordability crisis & the inequality crisis. It’s the same polluters who are destroying our environment who are extracting wealth from our economy to line their own pockets."

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

14d

Love the Welly airport CEO lobbying the Govt to spend $3,800,000,000 of public money on a project that will barely make a difference.
That’s more than twice the asset value of the airport itself.
Such better, more effective, and faster solutions possible!!

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social

15d

I don't understand why the govt hasn't already moved to Phase 2 of the fuel crisis plan. All it involves is encouraging fuel saving, and surely it would have been prudent to start that a couple of weeks ago? Nicola seems desperate to do nothing. #nzpol

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social

15d

The Government’s planned $1 billion gas import terminal could raise energy prices and carbon emissions, Parliament’s environment watchdog has warned in a letter to the energy minister. #nzpol #lng
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/lng-plan-worst-of-both-worlds-environment-watchdog-warns/

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social

15d

The NZ Govt's actual four phase National Fuel Plan:
1: Disestablish all polices that reduce fossil fuel use
2. Introduce polices to increase fossil fuel use
3. When fuel crisis hits, hold a press conference
4. Panic.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social

15d

i've been trying to work out why the whole 'we want people to decide for themselves' thing during this crisis makes my skin crawl. i realise now it's because rich people have far more options in what they decide leaving poor people with no choice. Wealthy, sorted and not panicking.

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com

17d

New MBIE data (Mar 22): in-country diesel down to 18 days, territory where the National Fuel Plan contemplates mandatory constraints. Yet we are doing nothing.

Only 2 ships arriving in the next 2 weeks, 1 carries diesel.
Total supply: 46.6 days, down from 52 in two weeks.

Updated graphic below.

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com

18d

It'd be cheaper, better address the cost of living, and more effectively reduce fuel demand to make public transport free, at least for a few months, than the $50 the government is now offering.
We should consider Green's proposal.
CC @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/03/24/free-public-transport-could-be-the-smarter-reflief-package.html

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social

18d

Ah yes, a govt subsidy to keep cars on the road in a fuel crisis rather than a government subsidy to get cars off the road in a fuel crisis. Masterful.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/590463/watch-50-a-week-for-some-families-as-fuel-crisis-relief-package-unveiled

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com

18d

With the government's $50/week tax credit, if a family uses all that money for fuel, at current prices around $3.33/litre and a fuel economy of 8L/100km, they could drive 187.5 km. Or just under 27 km a week.

How much further could families travel with free public transport?

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social

18d

Chris Bishop's announcement of $52m of funding for EV chargers from the election $250m promise is actually using $66m of Labour's funds

National in fact have spent $0, and the loans don't even have to be used for EV chargers

Anyone who says Nat & Lab are the same need their head checked

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com

18d

It is such an oddly un-targeted response to a fuel crisis. It's not nothing, but what does it do to help our dwindling fuel supply?

Hard to believe they keep saying our supply is healthy, nothing to worry about, while all the data is showing the tap is starting to just drip.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com

19d

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

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Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social

19d

Merci !

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

19d

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

21d

Good read.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360971678/evs-may-get-middle-class-welfare-so-what

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social

21d

An oil shock just forces a simple choice:

Subsidise fuel

or

Subsidise getting off fuel

Most governments pick the first

That’s a mistake!

A quick 🧵

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

23d

Who’s surprised?

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360967717/unredacted-briefing-blunder-reveals-hidden-cook-strait-ferry-costs

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social

24d

Back in 2024 as part of the coalition agreement with NZ First, the govt commissioned a Fuel Security Study from Castalia and Envisory. It was released in Feb 2025 along with the government's Fuel Security Plan. They make for interesting reading - especially seeing what's missing from the plan. 🧵 1/5

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social

24d

Nicola Willis says she's not interested in subsidising millionaires but she literally changed tax laws to let wealthy trustees avoid tax, signed off on $300m of tax subsidies for foreign tobacco, $500m for Google/Meta, and gave $3B to mega landlords like Nat MP Carl Bates & Luxon

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

26d

The Coalition Government love giving the rich more money and aren’t shying away from corporate welfare.

The common factor in cancelling policies like the Clean Car Discount and GIDI fund was that they were reducing emissions (and therefore our exposure to high oil prices.)

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Bart Janssen @bjjanssen.bsky.social

26d

This has always been National's lie - that EVs are the expensive luxury that only the rich buy

But the point is the rich can always buy whatever they want

What the discount made possible was to let middle NZ buy efficient cars that would pay off long-term for them and for AoNZ

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Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

26d

If Nicola Willis really didn’t want to hand out lots of money to rich people, why the billions in tax cuts for landlords?

It’s an absolute rubbish excuse to cancel a policy that was demonstrably working to bring in EVs and low emissions vehicles.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social

26d

“Millionaires in Remuera”, you say? Interesting choice of example.🤔

Also: just because you have that one anecdote about that one friend doesn’t invalidate a policy that was working for a great number of other people, who also exist.
#nzpol

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social

26d

Congratulations to RNZ's Penny Smith for putting this fiasco into context...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/589551/green-party-warns-of-perfect-storm-as-ferry-breakdowns-disrupt-travel-and-freight

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