Great example of the use of 'patsy questions' to allow a fellow MP to promote their pet policies. Shane Jones has very little appreciation of international opinion in regards to fossil fuel use and extractive industries. If he thinks that exploration and consumption of hydrogen is ever going to be a viable strategy he's more deluded than his party leader. Jones is full of bluster about restructuring the electricity sector to save the timber mills that have closed this week but has been conspicuous by his silence when the hammer finally came down on 230 jobs there.
So far as CT's comment regarding EVs is concerned he seems to be wholly ignorant of both the comparative mineral requirements for EVs vs ICEVs, and the lifetime advantage EVs enjoy over ICEVs in terms of their emissions and environmental impact. Also the changing mineral makeup of EVs' batteries and associated energy storage infrastructure. For a quick and easily understood lesson on the pros and cons of EVs and fossil fueled vehicles this may help:
So far as CT's comment regarding EVs is concerned he seems to be wholly ignorant of both the comparative mineral requirements for EVs vs ICEVs, and the lifetime advantage EVs enjoy over ICEVs in terms of their emissions and environmental impact. Also the changing mineral makeup of EVs' batteries and associated energy storage infrastructure. For a quick and easily understood lesson on the pros and cons of EVs and fossil fueled vehicles this may help: