Christopher Luxon attempts to remove foot from mouth

[Wainuiguy]

I guess you may not be so critical if you were some of the people who relied on it for their livelihood.  Instead at some point we will need to start importing gas like we now import record amounts of dirty Indonesian coal while our (relatively) clean coal sits in the ground.

Well, your neoliberal friends corporatised the state owned mines, and we then proceeded to the next step - buy the cheapest coal available. You need to do some thinking, about the consequences of supporting unfettered capitalism.

Sorry unsure who these friends are you speak of.

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in these days of increasing technology in the solar/hydro field, petrochem combustion will go the way of steam.
why would we get behind obsolete technology by searching for and extracting its power source?

Hydro is good but I doubt we will see any more dams built in NZ.  Solar is OK for small use, for industrial applications no.  Wind is expensive and no one wants wind turbines near them or anywhere they can be seen.

We SHOULD be investing in geothermal and getting tech from Iceland.

Btw Oil isn't just used to power vehicles.